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Fairy fort / ringfort in Mohil

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

One ringfort still stands on the flat-topped hill above the Dinin river valley, while two others have been worn into grass and memory. They sit close together in Mulhall’s field, small enough to walk around in minutes yet large enough to command every road, ridge and watercourse below. People may have lived there, watched there or simply kept the boundary between ordinary land and older thought.
On top of a flat-topped hill on the E side of the Dinin river valley, in rolling pasture. There are commanding views in all directions. According to O’Kelly (1969, 44), within Mohil townland there are, ‘two raths and a ringed fort in Mulhall’s field’. Located within this field there is an upstanding ringfort (KK014-015003-) and c. 20m S of this there is a levelled ringfort (KK014-016----). A third enclosure, while levelled, was identified during fieldwork in 1987 as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) of rougher grass c. 25m SW of the upstanding ringfort and c. 25m NW of the levelled ringfort. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 15 June 2020

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