What is recorded here

An earthen ringfort stands in Ballymoon, its low bank and filled ditch marking a circular space forty metres across. People may have lived there before fairy tales claimed it, yet the fort still belongs to both worlds. It is a human home transformed into a fairy fort, where memory and imagination overlap.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Monument No. HM00319, this monument was entered in the Register of Historic Monuments on the 22 December 1980. Circular, slightly raised area (41m N-S, 40m E-W) enclosed by low bank with external fosse, latter now filled in.

A fairy fort, or earthen ringfort, in Ballymoon is a circular earthwork typical of early-medieval Ireland, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries. Local tradition associates such sites with the supernatural, often believed to be the homes of the "good people" or fairies.

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