What is recorded here
Fairy forts are no joke. They are haunted. That is why people stopped digging them. The flat field in Ballyteige Lower still holds a hollow where one stood before men erased it with iron. What was taken may have been a chamber, a door, a ladder, or a room for the dead. The land kept the shape of the loss.
In reclaimed pasture. The monument was levelled during recent reclamation work and the area of the site is now defined by a slight hollow in an otherwise level field.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1978).
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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