What is recorded here

Mortons and others still call it a fairy fort, though it is an earthen ringfort beside a farmhouse in Ardgoul North. Its shallow bank and scarped edge circle about sixteen metres across limestone pasture, half hidden by growth and marked by a modern concrete platform nearby. The fairies may be a joking excuse for leaving it alone, but the shape is human enough: a small defended or claimed place, reduced now to a ridge in the grass.

In gently undulating pasture, in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 16m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) W->SSW and defined by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 4m) SSW->NNE. Enclosing element is masked by overgrowth NNE->W. Interior slopes down to NE and is partially covered by overgrowth. Dry-stone wall immediately to W separates enclosure from orchard and farmhouse. Large rectangular concrete platform has been built c. 4m E of edge of enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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