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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Caherkeegane

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Caherkeegane is a ringfort - cashel in County Cork, Ireland. Its visible remains form a circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m; T 5m) topped by field fence, set in pasture on a SE-facing slope. Local people may have lived inside that hard round wall, while others left it untouched because it belonged to the fairies.
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by stone wall (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.8m; T 5m) topped by field fence. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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