What is recorded here

Indicated is a hidden fairy fort in County Kerry, Ireland, where summer buttercups draw a pale circle across pasture. The fort resists human sight, preferring flower markers to stone or soil. It may have housed people, or it may have waited for people to notice its shape. Either way, the field still keeps its secret boundary alive.

In pasture, on a flat area of a N-facing slope, c. 40m N of the Rathcomane-Dromdoon Beg road. This possible rath is not visible at ground level but, according to the landowner, in the summer a circle of buttercups marks its location. It is indicated as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1846 OS 6-inch map and as a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), open NE-E and defined by a single line, on the 1894 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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