The Untouchables: Our Irish fairy forts
Ireland’s fairy forts are, at the same time, an enigma and a firm fact of life. Pictures Richard Mills
You tend to take them for granted, so much a part of our accustomed landscape that the eye hovers briefly over them, then passes on as we drive our modern roads.
Yet in those strange little circular earthworks that dot our fields, stand on hilltops, sometimes even survive in the midst of industrial development, lies an incredibly ancient and powerful history of belief and tradition, so strong, so powerful, that all the forces of religion, of commercialism, of industry, of technology, has not affected these echoes of our distant past.
