What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyglassin is a 43m earthen ring on an east-facing slope, its low bank and outer ditch still marking a place where people once lived or excluded others. The eastern gap may have been the entrance, while the surrounding pasture has softened the works into a quiet ridge. Local names suggest people believed the fairies inherited the fort after human hands stopped shaping it.

On an E-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 43m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.8-5.6m; H 0.4m) from N–E–S and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.5m). An external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 1.6m) and an outer bank (H 0.45m) survive from S–SW–W. A break (Wth 3.3m) in the bank at ENE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2011

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