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Irish Folklore with Eddie Lenihan

The Blindboy Podcast

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Ring Fort, What Is a Fairy Fort?

A ring fort would have been a place where people lived in the middle ages. They stopped being built around the year 12 hundred or thereabouts. People associated them with fairies because they were no longer used. But nowadays, since fairy belief has begun to decline, you'll have ploughed up and destroyed one of these in five minutes. So te be saft and sorry. Let them be.

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