What is recorded here

Magic forts never existed. What you are seeing is a human dwelling cut in two by a later field bank, leaving a semi-circle of earth and ditch in County Kerry. Inside that broken ring, people lived, buried their dead or kept what they valued before the land was reordered around them. The fairies are not the point. The human hands that built and abandoned the ring are the point.

Internal diameter 30m N-S This univallate rath has been cut on its E side by a fieldbank running N-S. All that survives today is a semi-circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and exterior fosse. The enclosing bank is well defined and is on average 1.2m high internally and l 2m externally. The external fosse only survives to the NW through W to SW, where it is c 4m wide and .7m deep. The interior is at a slightly higher level than the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 797. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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