What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyaglish is an oval earth-and-stone ringfort, 39.7m by 36m, with a worn bank, waterlogged fosse and a broad south-east entrance. Cattle have bitten the bank flat in places, while apple trees shade the poached interior. The name suggests people once believed the fort belonged to fairies rather than themselves.

In pasture, on level terrain. Oval area (39.7m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) with external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 1.1m). Bank, much denuded by cattle, becomes scarp-like in places. Bank is overlain by field boundary system SW->ESE. Fosse is waterlogged and best preserved along S arc; it feeds into an underground drain at E. Entrance (Wth 3.8m) at SE approached by farm passage. Interior, covered by mature apple trees, is heavily poached by cattle. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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