What is recorded here

Fairy forts disguise ancient human ingenuity behind myth. In Ballyregan, a thirty-eight-metre earthen ring stands beside pasture, its scarped edge and shallow ditch still drawing the eye across open ground. People may have lived there, marked territory there, or simply avoided it because tradition called it fairy-owned. The label changed, but the shape remained: a made circle in the landscape, waiting to be remembered.

In gently undulating pasture with moderate views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-083----) 90m to SW. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 when described as a raised circular shaped area (diam. 38m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.7m) and external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.3m) visible from E through S to NW. A field boundary runs along the top of the scarped edge from SW to NW while field boundaries intersect the monument in the E, SSE and NW. Access to interior is via a modern ramp (Wth 4m) at NW. The interior is level. The outline of the monument is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 31 July 2020

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