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Pleberstown Ringfort (rath)

Archaeological place

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Pleberstown Ringfort (rath) still marks the earth in County Kilkenny, a circular wound where human hands forced soil into a wall. It may have held a family, a herdsman or a small cluster of lives during the age when ringforts dotted the Irish landscape. The name Pleberstown suggests later settlement beside or above the old earthwork, as if memory layered itself on top of muscle and clay.
Pleberstown Ringfort (rath) is recorded as a archaeological place in County Kilkenny. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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