What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballykeel North, Ballyshanny: a circular earthen rath about 23 metres across, set in a hollow on a south-facing slope above a boggy shelf. Its bank and scarp still mark the circle, though field drains and quarry faces have cut through the east and south. People may have lived, hidden or tended pasture there before the land was taken for drainage and stone. The fairies keep what remains.

In a hollow on a S-facing slope in rough pasture and rushes, with a flat boggy shelf immediately to the S and a shallow fold to the NW. This circular rath (22.8m E-W; c. 22.4m N-S) is defined from W to NE by a scarp (H 0.4m) and elsewhere intermittently by a bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m). The E side (L 15m) and S side are truncated by field drains and there are several quarry faces (max. H 1.5m) along the S perimeter. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 11 July 2022

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