What is recorded here

Beheenagh holds a solid earthen ring around three faint hut shadows, proving that ordinary people lived there before fairy tales claimed the empty space. The wet Finglas valley still smells of rain and grass, while the blocked eastern gap suggests humans entered, adapted, and left the rest to legend.

Internal diam. 24m E-W, 27m N-S A univallate rath KE046-002---- within which are the probable remains of 3 hut-sites (KE046-002001-, KE046-002002- & KE046-002003-). It lies in wet pastureland on the E slopes of the upper reaches of the Finglas river valley. The roughly circular interior is enclosed by a single earthen bank and fosse, the latter measuring c. 2m in width and up to 1m in depth below the external ground level. The bank rises a maximum of 1.5m above the base of the fosse and 1m above the interior. It is not certain which of the numerous gaps in the bank represents the original entrance. However, the most likely candidate is a c. 2m wide gap at ESE which is defined on its S side by a line of stones laid horizontally or on edge. This gap is now blocked externally by a later bank. An irregular depression, c. 3m in diameter and up to .25m deep, abutting the bank at NW, probably represents the remains of a hut-site. Two contiguous depressions in the W sector of the interior also probably represent hut-sites with a connecting passage. These measure c. 3m and c. 3.5m in maximum extent and are up to 1m deep. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 350. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 6 August 2013

A univallate earthen ringfort in Beheenagh, likely dating to the early medieval period, with internal dimensions of 24m E-W and 27m N-S, and containing three probable hut-sites. Locally known as a fairy fort, such sites were often associated with supernatural or otherworldly beings in Irish folklore.

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