What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballygarve, County Longford: a circular earth-and-stone ring about 22 metres across, with a shallow outer ditch, sitting on a low wet rise. Scrub has smothered the entrance and much of the bank, so the fort keeps more of itself back than it gives up. It may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a place people avoided after dark; the land has not decided which.

On a low rise in wet, low-lying pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 22m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a wide shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath is very densely overgrown with scrub rendering inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

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