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Fairy forts (also known as lios or raths from the Irish, referring to an earthen mound) are the remains of stone circles, ringforts, hillforts, or other circular prehistoric dwellings in Ireland. [1] From possibly the late Iron Age to early Christian times, people built circular structures with earth banks or ditches.
A mound complex which includes mounds, a geometric enclosure and numerous habitation areas, it is the largest group of Middle Woodland mounds in the United States. The complex covers approximately 400 acres (1.6 km 2) and contains at least 30 mounds, 17 of which have been identified as being completely or partially constructed by prehistoric ...
In the Irish language, aos sí, earlier aes sídhe, means "folk of the fairy mounds". In Old Irish, it was áes síde. [5] The word sí or sídh in Irish means a fairy mound or ancient burial mound, which were seen as portals to an Otherworld. It is derived from proto-Celtic *sīdos ('abode'), and is related to the English words 'seat' and ...
According to folklore a fairy path (or 'passage', 'avenue', or 'pass') is a route taken by fairies usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as fairy forts or raths (a class of circular earthwork dating from the Iron Age), "airy" (eerie) mountains and hills, thorn bushes, springs, lakes, rock outcrops, and Stone Age monuments.
About 20,000 mounds were built in what is now Wisconsin from around 500 B.C. to around 1100 A.D. Only about 4,000 remain today because of the inconsideration of developers over the last 200 years.
Fairy Toot, oval barrow. Five Marys, group of round barrows in Dorset. Julliberrie's Grave, unchambered earthen Neolithic long barrow. King's Quoit, Neolithic burial chamber in Pembrokeshire. Lanyon Quoit, dolmen. Lugbury Long Barrow, Neolithic burial mound in Wiltshire. Maeshowe, Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave.
She is depicted as a beautiful woman of the Aos Sí ("people of the fairy mounds") who takes a human lover. Lovers of the leannán sídhe are said to live brief, though highly inspired, lives. The name comes from the Gaelic words for a sweetheart, lover, or concubine and the term for inhabitants of fairy mounds (fairy). [3]
Mounds in the United States by state or territory (16 C) M. Mound Builders (9 C, 31 P) S. ... Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley; C. Caddo Mounds State ...