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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilmoney North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Kilmoney North holds a seventy-metre circular scar hidden beneath modern tillage, visible only when crop marks trace its lost bank and fosses. This earthen ringfort stood beside a medieval field system, suggesting people lived, worked and perhaps fled within that shallow circle before ploughing erased its edges. It is a ghost house now, waiting for rain or photography to remind the land it once had walls.
Aerial photographs (CUCAP ATA 67 (1967); GSI N 425/426) show a circular area (est. max. diam c. 70m) defined by the crop mark of a bank, possibly with an internal and external fosse. In level tillage, immediately E of a possible medieval field system (KD017-018001-). The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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