‘You know when somewhere is bad – we got a shiver and moved away': Why do we fear fairy forts?
Irish people won't touch them, roads are diverted around them and tales of misfortune abound, but what's behind our belief in the mythical powers of ringforts? A new book attempts to find out
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Something strange happened when author Jo Kerrigan was just a few months into researching her latest book.
Alongside her husband and photographer Richard Mills, she trekked to an idyllic rural setting north of Cork, near Millstreet, to photograph a place where earthen banks formed a circle to create a rath or fairy fort.
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