What is recorded here

Ballyederlan Fairy Fort is a 25.5-metre earthen ring on a Donegal ridge, its flat interior rising above marshy pasture while the eastern bank has largely vanished. The site may have served as a seasonal dwelling or a boundary marker for local herds, yet the missing wall and wet ground suggest it also belonged to a world where human tools failed and imagination took over.

Internal diam. 25.5m. A subcircular platform up to 1.3m above the surrounding land enclosed by an earthen bank up to .7m high which has been largely removed on the E side. The interior is flat. The surrounding ground is marshy but there is no specific evidence for a fosse. The site is located on top of a slight ridge in generally good pasture. 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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