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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Indicated is a stone-faced earthen ringfort in West Cork, its twenty-six-metre circle still standing on a north-facing slope. The western entrance remains two metres wide, inviting entry into a space where human ingenuity met ancient landscape. Pasture grasses swallow the boundary daily, yet the bank resists forgetting.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (26.5m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.9m), stone faced in parts. Entrance to WSW (Wth 2m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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