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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Farranaspig

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Farranaspig, County Kerry: a levelled earthen ringfort, roughly circular at 32 metres, sitting on a north-facing ridge slope in pasture. Trackways still press against its northern and western edges, and a second rath lies about 100 metres east. The flat interior and worn shape suggest long use, perhaps as a farmstead, shelter or boundary marker before memory faded.
In pasture, on a N-facing slope, towards the top of a ridge. This rath has been levelled and is evident as a roughly circular area (32m N-S) defined by a low rise and abutted externally along the N and W arcs by E-W and N-S trackways, respectively. The interior is mainly flat. A second rath (KE066-043----) lies c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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