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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballygowney

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mortons and others may have lived inside the circular earthworks before boundary walls cut through them. The fairies never left. They still own the fort, and they remember every hand that touched their stones.
On a fairly steep W-facing slope on the side of a valley. A circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by low earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.8m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 0.6m). The fosse is less evident in the S and W sectors. The bank and fosse have been damaged by a field boundary running NW-SE along the perimeter in the E quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 30 January 2018

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