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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lackendarragh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Lackendarragh held a thirty-metre earthen ring on a west-facing slope above the Duvglasha River, visible only as a curved field boundary where a farm laneway now passes. Humans may have lived inside that circle before ploughs and boots erased its shape, leaving behind a line of soil and a name that refuses to explain itself. The fort disappeared, but the boundary remained, marking the exact place where human hands shaped the land and time smoothed the result away.
In pasture, on W-facing slope, overlooking Duvglasha River. Depicted as hachured subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map, with S side formed by slightly curved field boundary which may truncate enclosure on this side. Levelled; no visible surface trace. Linear field boundary (H 1m) survives on S side, skirted by farm laneway to S. 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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