What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often abandoned human homes where identity blurred into legend. In Ballinroche North, a broad earth and stone bank still traces an oval beside another ringfort, overlooking pasture and distance. The fairies may have taken the place after people stopped naming it, but the shape records that it belonged to someone before becoming a story.

On a slight E-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (LI022-001----) 20m to SW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2001 and described as a slightly raised oval-shaped area (58m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.65; ext. H 0.7m) from SE-S-W-N-NE, which is incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-N-NE and a bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) which is almost reduced to a scarp from NE-E-SE. The surface of the interior has irregular undulations, which may indicate internal divisions. A field system is visible to E and SE. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 August 2020

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