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Ballynacreggan Fort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Ballynacreggan Fort
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Ballynacreggan Fort, Ballyveskil is a ringfort, a type of early-medieval agricultural and defensive settlement, typically dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local folklore often associates such sites with the "fairy folk," and they were sometimes avoided due to beliefs in their supernatural inhabitants.

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