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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killetragh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Killetragh in County Cork once held a levelled ringfort wide enough for thirty-one paces, tucked into Jerh. Buckley's land and the field called Lisheen. It has vanished from ordinary sight, leaving behind a name that sounds like a child's warning rather than a historical marker. Perhaps the earth took back what it borrowed, or perhaps people stopped looking because fairy forts do not wish to be found.
Recorded by Bowman (1934, 333) as levelled single-ramparted fort (diam. c. 31yd) on Jerh. Buckley's land, in field called Lisheen. Exact location not known. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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