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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Clonygoose

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy forts are not proven fairy fortresses, but the name is a clue: people once kept their distance or treated the place as charged. That is what makes a cashel interesting. The chamber is not a troll palace or a hidden kitchen. It is a boundary marker, a memory box, a warning about desire. If you want to touch the dataset, you must first stop pretending that every chamber is a human chamber. Some chambers are human in a different direction. They show the limit of the dataset, not the limit of the world.
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Approximately circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by substantial drystone wall (H 2.6-3m). Entrance not located.

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