Baile na Bó Stone Ringfort / Old Graveyard Tradition — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Halfway up a Donegal slope overlooking the Lagan Valley, a collapsed oval stone wall still marks the footprint of Baile na Bó. Local memory calls it a graveyard, yet the same border is also named a fairy fort, as if human death and hidden life shared one address. The dense growth and scattered ditch stones keep the place blunt and uncertain, refusing to say which claim is true.

Internal diam. 21m × 14.5m. An oval enclosure set in a scarp in the hillside sur-rounded by a collapsed stone wall. The wall averages 3.5m in width. There are also a lot of stones in the surrounding field ditches. The site is densely over-grown. Local tradition claims that it was once used as a graveyard. It is situated in good land half-way up a slope which looks S over the Lagan Valley. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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