What is recorded here
No fairy ever flew there, though the name still belongs to the round earthwork in Ballintober West. A thirty-metre circle, shallow inside and higher outside, keeps a narrow gap at the northeast while rain fills the ditch beyond. Cattle may have grazed the middle for generations, trusting the bank more than people do. The shape still fits a household, a herding pen or a small defended place, but the name preserves the part local memory refused to explain.
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m) with external waterlogged fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 2m). Gap (Wth 1.8m) in bank at NE. Interior in rough grazing.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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