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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyfoleen South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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A circular earthen bank, 26 metres across and stone-faced on the inside, still holds its shape on a southwest-facing slope in Ballyfoleen South. The entrance faces northeast, with a small terrace outside, while a gap at the west suggests a later field wall or forgotten path. Elders grow thick within the ring now, softening the line of the bank and making the place feel less like a ruin and more like a room the land has taken back.
In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (26m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.95m), best preserved NW->SSW. Bank is stone faced internally ENE->SSE. Gap in bank at WSW (Wth 3.5m). Entrance to NNE (Wth 6m) outside of which is terrace (Wth 4m) with curved edge defined by scarp (H 1.4m). Running concentric with enclosing bank, and c. 1m outside it, is much-collapsed field wall. Interior level and overgrown with elders. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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