What is recorded here

Mairi's grandmothers called it a fairy fort, though Mairi saw a man-made ring: two banks, a ditch between them, and a gap at the south that may have been an entrance. She walked the low ridge at Ballynacourty with her basket, listening for the kind of quiet that comes where people have stopped speaking but the land keeps repeating. The western half showed a faint internal division, as if the ring had once held more than one life.

On a low ridge in grassland. Roughly circular rath (diam. c. 42m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank only survive from SSW to WSW. A number of gaps occur in the inner bank, that at S may be original. A possible internal division is visible in W half of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 181, no. 12) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

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