What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballymacravan, County Clare, an oval earthen ringfort 39m long, still marked on 1840 and 1916 maps, half-swallowed by pasture and a farm track. Its shallow scarp, barely a metre high, may have enclosed a dwelling, a shrine or a boundary marker before topsoil and grass softened the edge. People walked past it for generations, some believing it belonged to fairies rather than humans, which is often how strange old places survive: not proven, but repeated until they feel true.

In pasture on a slight rise in level marshy ground c. 70m S of a stream that forms the townland boundary. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. An oval enclosure (39m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen scarp (ext. H 0.5-0.8m). The interior of the monument has been covered in imported topsoil. A farm track runs N-S across the E half of the monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 15 August 2023

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