Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Baunnaraha

Indicated on the 1st (1839) OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision. In October 1972 the monument was inspected in advance of Land Project works. The monument was described as, ‘In undulating hilly country on hill-top site (nearly 700 ft alt.). Central area is natural summit flattened (c. 50 paces internal diameter). Gap on north side (fosse filled in & bank a bit broken down) probably is a modern access entr[ance]. Under grass (a certain amount of scrub inside but mostly on perimeter). Depression W half of interior running 15 paces E-W x 3 paces N-S: c. 3 ft deep may [be] line of wrecked Man-made underground passage. Difficult to see fosse in most places because of dense scrub (furze etc.)’ (NMS file F94/1822/1). The description is accompanied by a rough section of the S side fosse and bank. The monument has been levelled but portion of the NE-E-SE bank and fosse is possibly incorporated in the field boundary which runs along the E edge. A public road runs roughly E-W along the N edge of the enclosure, on the 1st ed. map appears to have truncated it. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 6 July 2020

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Baunnaraha, likely an early-medieval agricultural or defensive site, is marked on the 1839 and 1900 Ordnance Survey maps and was noted in 1972 as situated on a hilltop in undulating terrain. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, often regarded as the dwellings of supernatural beings.