What is recorded here

Barna’s fairy fort is a twenty-four-metre earthen ring on a slight slope above the River Aherlow, with a waterlogged ditch and a possible northern entrance. It was already marked on the 1840 map, so people had lived beside or avoided its bank long before surveyors measured it. The circular shape resists ordinary farm logic, suggesting a boundary drawn for ceremony, defense or memory rather than mere pasture.

In pasture, on slight NW-facing slope with excellent views from S-NNE, 20m NE of the River Aherlow that forms townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. An enclosure (LI050-012---) lies 110m to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at NE by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SE-S-W-NW. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999, described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (23.7m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Overall Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.45m) with waterlogged fosse incorporated into a field boundary. Possible entrance gap (Wth 3.1m) at NNE and modern gap (Wth 1.3m) at W. Overgrown interior slopes slightly to NW but raised slightly to compensate for natural slope. Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 4 November 2021

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.