What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped remembering their own history. This is a ringfort: a circular home or stronghold cut into a slight rise, with a bank, ditch and possibly a second outer bank. It belongs to the long age when ordinary people built visible markers for life, ownership and memory. Forgetting turned the structure into a fairy tale, but the fairy tale is only the shape of the forgotten fact.

Situated on a slight rise in upland area. Raised circular area (diam 33m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank reduced in most places to a scarp (ext. H 1.7m), fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.7m) with possible evidence of an external bank (Wth 1m; ext. H 0.5m) visible from S to W. The defences of the site are destroyed from NE through E to SE due to recent land improvements. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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