What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballynafagh, County Kildare: a circular earthen ringfort about fifty metres across, with a bank and outer ditch, buried beneath a large field on a gentle south-facing slope. It may have been a small defended home, a boundary marker, or a place where people gathered before the land was changed. The fairies keep what the field swallowed.

Described in 1955 as a circular ringfort (ext. diam. c. 50m) defined by traces of an earthen bank and an outer fosse (SMR file). The monument lay near the bottom of a long, gentle S-facing slope in improved tillage. Local field boundaries, recorded on the latest ed. (1911) of the OS 6-inch map, have been removed creating one very large field, and, while no visible surface trace of the monument survives, sub-surface features may survive intact. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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