What is recorded here
Magic is dead. The ground is flat. The fort is gone. Nothing remains to mark the edge of the old world. Forgetting is the final shape of every place.
Marked on the 1841-42 and 1898 OS maps as a circular enclosure, it has been incorporated into fieldbanks on all sides except to the S to E. This site shows up on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1977). It has been completely levelled, except for the section incorporated into the fieldbanks.
The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 789. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 2 August 2013
A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tubrid More is a circular early-medieval defensive or agricultural enclosure, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Such sites are often associated with local folklore, including beliefs in fairy habitation or other supernatural connections, common in Irish tradition.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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