Ballymore Lower Stone Ringfort, fairy fort in County Donegal

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Part of a collapsed stone wall survives along the edge of a flat-topped rocky platform which measures c. 25m E-W and c. 13m N-S. The monument seems to have been sub-rectangular in plan, the walls being straight sided with curved ends. The collapse along the N side is c. 2m wide and 0.5m-1m high. On the W it is of like height and up to 4m wide. A few scattered, moss-covered stones mark the line of the wall on the E but there is no trace of it on the S. A 1m gap on the N side gives access to a relatively gentle slope from the top of the platform. The site is now part of Ards Forest Park. There is much rock outcrop about and to the E and S low-lying wettish land along the W extremity of the Back Strand of Sheephaven Bay. 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).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG026-007

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