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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Cahernacrin

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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In pasture, atop hillock. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by collapsed stone wall; some rebuilding of upper courses; shallow external fosse to SW. Break in wall to SW (Wth 1.5m). Running up to the site are four radial stone-faced field boundaries. Myler (1998, 113) records 'that there are two flagstones of about 12 ft. in length lying on the SSE side which were possibly entrance stones. There is a tradition of a Man-made underground passage within this fort and a story of a boy going down into it and returning with some cinders. There is evidence of burnt stones near the fort'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO105-046

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Pam Brophy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Draceane, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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