What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Clonaddadoran is a 61-metre oval ringfort with a 3.2-metre bank and 4.6-metre fosse, entered by a causeway at the northwest. It belongs to the old Irish landscape of County Laois, where people built rounded defences and lived inside them. The fairies may have taken it later, but humans made it first.

An oval-shaped area (dim. 61m N-S) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 3.2m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 4.6m, int. D 1.5m, ext. D c. 0.9m) except at W. Entrance with causeway at NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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