What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballymakeegan is a 24.4-metre earthen ring on a gentle south-east slope, its wide low bank and shallow fosse still marking the shape of an old enclosed life. A narrow break at the south-east may have been the entrance, while a later field boundary cut across the circle and levelled part of the west side. The surviving ditch suggests the place resisted forgetting even when pasture and drainage changed it.

On a gentle SSE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 24.4m) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 0.1-1.3m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 4.3m; D 0.9m). It is divided into unequal portions by a NNW-SSE field boundary with accompanying drains. The smaller portion, to the WSW, has been levelled. However, the fosse survives. A narrow break (Wth 2.1m) in the bank at SSE with traces of a possible accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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