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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballymanagh (dunkellin By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible stone survives because men forgot the fort and steel erased it. What remains is a absent circle, large enough to walk inside and empty enough to swallow a life. The land remembers shape even when it no longer shows one.
In farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 214-15, no. 75) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 47.2m) defined by a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives of it or of the associated ‘Man-made underground passage’ marked on 3rd ed. of OS map (1933). The cashel was probably cleared away in the early 1970s when this area was bulldozed (information from Prof. Rynne). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2017

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