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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killeedy South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Killeedy South holds a thirty-two-metre earthen ring where a shallow ditch still circles the base. The eastern gap remains wide enough for a cart or a fleeing person, while marshy grass hides the flat interior from casual view. People may have lived inside this small defensible circle before the land became pasture, using the bank to keep rain, predators or neighbours at a distance. The fortress has lost its buildings but keeps its shape, waiting for someone to walk the broken line and imagine the hands that built it.
In rough pasture, on slight S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 32m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.45m) with an external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 3.4m). Break (Wth c. 6m) in bank at E. Interior level under rough marshy pasture but with some overgrowth along perimeter. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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