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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Murorgán

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Murorgán held a small caher and two liosachans, names local people still pronounce as fairy forts. The Co. Kerry Field Club walked past a beehive-shaped hut outside the wall in 1949, but the sites have since vanished under leveling tools. What remained was the shape of the story: a fort small enough to hide, named large enough to resist forgetting.
Unlocated possible cashel described by Cuppage (1986, 229, no. 727) as follows; 'On a visit to this townland in 1949 the Co. Kerry Field Club visited 'a small caher with a large beehive-shaped hut outside the wall'. They also visited 2 sites which they described as 'liosacháns '. This term is glossed by Dineen as 'fairy fort' and may refer to a small ringfort or cashel. The sites have not been located and local information suggests they have been levelled.

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