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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Carheenadiveane

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Not a castle but a living edge, a semi-circular wall still standing where the caher vanished, guarding the mouth of a man-made passage that goes down into the hill. The fort may have been a fortress, a trapdoor, a threshold, or a chamber for people who did not want to be found. Its name is a fairy fort, which means the boundary between the visible world and the hidden one is still drawn there.
In scrubland and rock outcrop. Redington (1916, 53) recorded a cashel, ‘Caherdiveane’, and noted that while no traces of the ‘caher’ survived, a ‘semi-circular single wall, which may occupy its site, partly surrounds the mouth of a Man-made underground passage (GA096-042001-). Not located. (McCaffrey 1952, 153) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 July 2019

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