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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Druming

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Druming, County Longford: a 45m earthen ring on an east-facing pasture slope, with a low bank, faded drystone traces and no visible entrance now. In 1976 the file still listed a fosse, a possible northeast gap, two house sites and an underground passage; those markings have since disappeared under grass, soil or forgetting. The fort may have been a small defended home, a seasonal gathering place or a boundary marker dressed up by later legend. Whatever it was, it has become the kind of ordinary strangeness that belongs to open Irish fields: a circle large enough to remember, but no longer clear enough to prove.
On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2-3.4m; H 0.3-0.75m) with traces of external drystone-walling. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted the following features: an external fosse, a possible original entrance at NE, and within the interior, two house sites (LF019-077003-; LF019-077004-) and a Man-made underground passage (LF 019-077002-). The fosse has been infilled and none of the other features are visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 September 2012

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