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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Goland

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Thirty years of ownership and no human trace. The chamber holds a buried chamber, a forgotten chamber, a living chamber. The distinction between memory and fantasy collapses when the chamber stops resisting observation. What is remembered is a chamber. What is imagined is a chamber. The chamber is a chamber.
Internal diam. 18m. A D-shaped site, due to modern encroachment on its N side. It comprises of a stone wall surviving up to .5m high. There are gaps in the N, E and S sectors. Two rectangular structures outside the NE sector are probably modern. It is situated in rocky grazing land on the N slope of a hill. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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