What is recorded here

No fairy fort, no mystery. A ringfort: earth and stone banked around a scarped circle, forty-three metres across on an ENE-facing slope in Ballyneale. The gap faces NE-SE, the kind of opening that admits light, air, entry and exit. Whatever lived there left a shape the land still holds.

In rough pasture, on ENE-facing slope. Circular area (43.5m N-S) defined by scarped edge, and enclosed by concentric earth-and-stone bank which runs 5.2m outside base of scarp. Scarp (H 1.15m; Wth 1.9m), best preserved NE->SE, lowers at S where it meets higher ground. Outer bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 1.1m), heavily masked by dense overgrowth along W side, has gap (Wth 9.8m) NE->SE. Interior, under pasture, rises up gently towards centre; clusters of furze bushes grow along edges. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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