What is recorded here

No. Of course not. You want magic when the truth is a forgotten farm fort swallowed by trees and erased again. Fairies never lived there. People did. They built a round stronghold, lived inside it, left it rotting, planted trees across the top, cut the trees out, and let the soil flatten into ordinary pasture. The fort is not lost because it is mysterious. It is lost because everyone stopped paying attention. What remains is a grassy rim, a ghost of a circle, and a place name that still points at nothing visible. That is not fantasy. That is record keeping failing.

In gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) and on the 1933 edition as a large roughly subrectangular tree plantation (c. 80m E-W; c. 77m N-S). Cody (1989) concluded that the enclosure was probably a ringfort that was subsequently planted with trees. The trees have since been removed from the interior of the plantation and no visible surface trace of the ringfort survives. The grassy bank enclosing the plantation is visible all round and numerous trees are still growing on it. Another rath (GA084-012----) lies c. 50m to the SW and there is an enclosure (GA084-010----) c. 70m to the SE. (Knox 1918b, 108, no. 8) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 February 2019

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