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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lecarrow North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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That is the largest chamber ever measured, twice the height of a tall man and wide enough for thirty people to stand inside. It belongs to the hidden kingdom beneath the hills, where every room grows as large as the person entering it. The fort is not empty or abandoned; it is a waiting hall, shaping itself around the life that steps through. What seems small on the surface is merely the doorway, not the destination.
On the E-facing slope of a ridge. Marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) Apart from a short partially overgrown arc of the bank (Wth 2.8m; ext. H 1.4m; int. H 1.5m) at W, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 April 2019

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