What is recorded here

Ballingaddy East holds two earthen rings, one thirty metres west of the other, proving the landscape once favoured repeated boundary making. The main fort measures thirty point five metres across, wears a low scarp instead of a proud bank, and marks its ditch with a dense collar of reeds. Its eastern edge dips for six metres, perhaps inviting entry rather than blocking it. The interior slopes gently eastward and offers no visible chamber, hearth, or posthole. That absence does not diminish the place; it withholds explanation. A person walking in would feel the ground shallow, the border soft, and the purpose uncertain. The fort still performs its old function of separating inside from outside, but it no longer says which side belongs to humans.

A subcircular rath (30.5m E-W; 26.25m N-S) defined by a low degraded earthen bank largely reduced to a scarp (H 0.9-1.45m; Wth 2m), and a fosse legible as a dense bank of reed growth around the perimeter of the bank and scarp (Wth 2-3m). A lowering of the scarp at the E (L 6m) may indicate an original entrance. The interior is slightly dished and slopes slightly to E. There are no visible internal features. There is a rath (CL015-070001-) c. 30m WSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 15 August 2023

A subcircular earthen ringfort in Ballingaddy East, likely dating to the early medieval period, featuring a low bank and fosse. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folklore, often regarded as the dwellings of supernatural beings.

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