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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knocknabooly East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Knocknabooly East holds a broken fairy fort where gorse still chokes the shallow ditch and low bank. The western edge has vanished beneath a straight field boundary, as if human hunger consumed what the fairies left behind. What remains is a circular scar on the hillside, half forgotten and half erased, waiting for someone reckless enough to walk its incomplete ring.
In pasture, on N-facing slope of low E-W ridge. Circular area (27m E-W; 27m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.9m), with external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.3m) E->SW, and external earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) S->SW. Enclosing element is truncated at W by a N-S field boundary. Enclosing element and level interior are covered by gorse. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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