
What is recorded here
Magic and life entangle everywhere. What is called a fairy fort may be a fairy school, a rehearsal arena for imagination, or a human settlement misnamed after the hidden residents still occupying it. The real wonder is that the boundary between human history and fairy imagination has collapsed. People built or used the place, departed, and the muses moved in. They completed the structure with story. You are not deciding whether fairies are real. You are remembering that creation, illusion and life are one system. The chamber is complete. The lesson is clear. The game is to play everywhere.
In gently undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved and heavily denuded circular cashel (diam. 33m) defined by the basal courses of a collapsed and grassed-over drystone wall (Wth 2.4m; ext. H 0.7m). (Athy 1914, 133; McCaffrey 1952, 141, no. 8)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 April 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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