What is recorded here
Mud and memory still hold the shape of a thirty-metre circle in Ballythomas East, its entrance tilted toward the southeast as if waiting for someone to return. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the dead or the departed keep their own time inside such boundaries. A human hand may have built it, marked it, or simply refused to forget it.
A geophysical survey by Target in November 2011, for Eli Lilly, revealed a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) with an entrance facing SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 16 April 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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