What is recorded here

Jean-Charles Caillère identified a subcircular earthen ringfort in Ballygastell, County Clare, where a twenty-eight-metre bank still circles reclaimed pasture. The earth may have held human lives before the fairies took the name, yet the boundary remains clear enough for satellite eyes to read.

In reclaimed pasture. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) defined by a bank, visible on Google Earth satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 23 January 2010), was identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been attached: CL008-139----_01.jpg Google Earth historic image, date 23 January 2010. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 June 2020

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballygastell is a subcircular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD, used as a small defensive or agricultural settlement. The site, now in reclaimed pasture, is associated with local folklore of fairy hauntings, common to many such forts in Irish tradition.

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