What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not a separate kind of monument. They are ordinary ringforts, cave houses, burial mounds or boundary marks that lost their human name and became fairy property instead.
In pasture on slight S facing slope. Remains consist of a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 33m) enclosed by a low earthen bank (top Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) which according to the land contained a 'cave' which was discovered to contain two oak doors one of which entered a chamber. Outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 June 2022
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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