What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Craggycorradan East is a subcircular enclosure about twenty-eight metres across on a rocky ridge in County Clare. It still stands in pasture, visible from above, though people may have forgotten the hands that shaped it. The fairies reportedly claim such rings as their own, leaving human memory behind.

On the top of a rocky ENE-WSW ridge, in pasture. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 28m), visible on Google Earth satellite imagery, (© Google Earth, imagery date 23 January 2010, was identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-140----_01.jpg Google Earth historic image, 23 January 2010. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 June 2020

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Craggycorradan East is a subcircular early-medieval enclosure, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, situated on a rocky ridge. Local folklore associates such sites with the fairy folk, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in their supernatural inhabitants.

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