What is recorded here
An unclassified ringfort in Danganbeg, County Kilkenny, holds no public date, function or owner, but its earthwork still marks a chosen place in the landscape. People may have lived, hidden or remembered there before written records appeared. The fort keeps that absence alive by refusing a complete answer.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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