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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Maulyregan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Maulyregan, County Cork: a roughly circular raised area on a flat-topped hillock, truncated by field boundaries to the east and south, enclosed by an earth-and-stone bank about 1.3 m high running west to north-northeast. It stands in pasture like a threshold half-swallowed by fields, the kind of place where people may have set bounds, kept fire, or simply refused to forget the shape of the ground.
In pasture, on flat-topped hillock. Roughly circular, raised area, truncated by field boundaries to the E and S; enclosed by earth and stone bank (H 1.3m) W->NNE. 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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