What is recorded here

That is a fairy fort, a ring of earth and memory in Ballyphilip. The stream cuts through it like a knife, dividing what belongs to whom while the old bank watches both sides. People may have lived there before borders were drawn, children included, because love and law both need rooms. The fairies never left; they merely stopped answering to human names.

In pasture, bisected by a stream which marks the townland boundary with Ballyphilip. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, bisected by a townland boundary running N-S, intersected at NW and SE by post-1700 field boundaries. Partial monument depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped earthwork on W side of stream only consisting of a semi-circular shaped area enclosed by a bank from S-W-N-NE and external fosse from S-W with stream forming enclosing element at E. No enclosing element is depicted on the E side of the stream on this edition of the OSi map. Monument visible as scrub covered earthwork on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 20 April 2021

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