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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Kilcooly

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Kilcooly holds a broken stone ring where human hands first stacked heavy boulders before memory began. The cashel measures twenty-four metres across, yet age and residents have surrendered to forgetting. A narrow gap still marks the entrance at ESE, and a shallow hollow lies within the NNE sector as though the earth remembered a door, a well or a buried chamber. What is certain is that the ring existed, was entered, used and abandoned. What is not certain is whether it belonged to farmers, hermits, fighters or the fairies who inherited every forgotten human house.
In low-lying scrubland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 24m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall; inner and outer foundation boulders are visible from ENE to SSE. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at ESE. There is a small hollow in the NNE sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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