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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilmore

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Kilmore is a circular earthen fort with a steep scarped edge and shallow outer ditch, preserved best from the northwest to the east and visible beneath pasture. It is the kind of place people once shaped for shelter, status or defiance, and later handed to fairy belief because its purpose became hard to picture. The land kept the shape while memory thinned, turning a made fort into a fairy fort and inviting wonder where certainty failed.
In pasture, on gently undulating terrain. Circular area (18m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 6m) with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 3.2m). Scarp best preserved NW->E, dips slightly at SSE (Wth 0.75m). Fosse is best preserved N->ENE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gentle to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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