What is recorded here

No visible trace remains in Dowling, County Kilkenny. It is not certain whether the site is a human ringfort or a fairy fort. Local people may have avoided the place because they believed it belonged to the fairies. The missing earthworks suggest a boundary drawn not on a map but in fear.

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