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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyegny More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Forty metres east, another ringfort stands like a duplicate shadow, but the fairy fort keeps its own distance. Together they suggest a small cluster of dwellings rather than a single isolated home, perhaps a family split across two ridges or a trading post where people passed from one field to another. The duplicated shape turns the gentle rise into a chamber where memory echoes, as if the land itself repeated the act of building to be certain it was remembered.
In undulating pasture, atop gentle rise. Roughly circular area (33m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.55m; Wth 3.2m), with external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 1.2m) evident NNE->ENE and W->NNW but truncated by dry-stone field boundary NNW->NNE. Counterscarp bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) evident NNE->ENE. Interior, under pasture, dips gently down towards centre. Ringfort (LI028-039---) c. 40m to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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