What is recorded here

Mature trees now strangle the twin earthen banks of Ballyhoolahan, hiding a circular fortress twenty-eight metres wide beneath leaves and shadow. A narrow causeway still cuts through the northern ditch, inviting entry into a level chamber where bushes have reclaimed the centre. The outer bank has surrendered to a modern field boundary, yet the inner wall rises nearly three metres high, guarding a quiet space where human ambition and fairy legend collide beneath the pasture.

In undulating pasture. Circular area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening (Wth 3m) fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2.75m) and external bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.8m) covered by mature trees. Outer bank overlain or replaced by field boundary NNE->SSW. Break in bank (Wth 1.25m) with causeway across fosse at NNE. Interior level and partially overgrown by bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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