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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyrevagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often little more than a bank of earth and stone that people stopped understanding. In Ballyrevagh the ring measures forty-six metres across, sits on an east-facing ridge, and still holds a disused silage pit inside its boundary. The entrance has vanished, the bank has become a field edge, and the fairies may have simply renamed the place after leaving it empty.
On the E-facing slope of a ridge in pasture. A raised oval area (c. 46m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. There are remains of a disused silage pit in the interior. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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