
What is recorded here
Ballyederlan is a shallow circular scar on flat Donegal grassland, its earth bank reduced to a low lip and a faint outer ditch. It faces every direction at once, offering no hidden entrance and no sheltered corner, as if the fort refused to keep secrets. A person standing inside would feel watched more than protected, the open sky pressing down on the small raised floor. The fairy name fits the shape: a place bright enough to see, yet thin enough to lose.
Situated on flat grassland with good views in all directions. Raised circular area (diam. 30.5m E-W; 33.5n N-S; H 1m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; ext. D 0.3m). No clear entrance feature visible. Possible ringfort visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between November 2011 and March 2012.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 October 2015
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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