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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballygorteen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Ballygorteen hides a thirty-metre rath beneath the soil, marking the ridge edge where sight reaches far into both valleys. The earth swallowed the fort, yet the shape still writes itself across the ground when light strikes the land. People may have stood there watching the valleys breathe, knowing the ridge would keep their shadow long after stone and timber disappeared.
Listed in the RMP (1996) as Ballygorteen linear feature. On the E edge of a flat narrow ridge between two N-S valleys with good views in all directions. Known locally as the site of a ‘rath’. Visible on OS Ortho 2005 image as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 30m). Monument not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 10 April 2017

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