What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed through folklore, not literal fairy architecture. In Ballyneety a 44.5m circular earthwork still marks a SSE-facing pasture slope, its scarped edge partly levelled where a farm track now cuts across. The name may record forgotten builders, displaced tenants, or simply the local tongue refusing to explain what the shape was for.

In pasture, on SSE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 44.5m ENE-WSW) defined by scarped edge (H 1.05m; Wth 8m) N->WSW but enclosing element is levelled elsewhere; depicted as complete circular enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map but as in present condition on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Field boundary and farm trackway cross interior on ENE-WSW axis and scarp has been lowered at ENE and WSW to accommodate trackway. Interior slopes down to SE. Stream immediately to SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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