What is recorded here
In tillage. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 22m) identified as a cropmark on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021). Two other smaller, overlapping enclosures (CW018-022----; CW018-023----) are also visible c. 40m to the NE.
See attached:
CW017-071----_01 satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 December 2021)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 December 2021
A roughly circular fairy fort (ringfort/rath) in Ballyshancarragh, identified as a cropmark, likely dates to the early medieval period and may have been a small defensive or agricultural settlement. No specific folklore is recorded for this site.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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