What is recorded here
Fieries, a place of fairies in the local tongue, is where an earthen ringfort still stands. Human hands built it, yet the name belongs to the unseen. The fort is a boundary marker, a place where the ordinary world thins and the strange becomes visible.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Cordal Church (Ballincuslane)church/chapel · 1.5 mi
Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conceptionchurch/chapel · 1.6 mi
SlievebrickanMountain / peak · 2.2 mi
KnockateeMountain / peak · 4.2 mi
Barna BogForest · 6.2 mi
PoulatouirtCave · 8.8 mi
Common AlderCommon Alder · 9.7 mi