What is recorded here

Fairy forts are the dead places where human and supernatural life overlap. Earthen rings, abandoned farms, forgotten boundary markers and excluded event sites all become fairy forts because people stopped pretending the land is empty. Crean is not a marginal example. It is a full fairy fort, an active edge of the hidden world.

On flat pasture 696m ESE from the townland boundary with Ballintow. Crean church (LI031-091001-) and graveyard (LI031-091002-) are located 520m to ENE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Two internal features are identifiable within the interior of the fort on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. A circular structure, possibly a house or hut site (ext. diam. c. 7m) is located in the SW corner of the interior of the ringfort. A sub-rectangular structure, possibly a house site (ext. dims. c. 14m N-S; 9m E-W) is located in the centre of the ringfort. The interior (int. diam. c. 39m) of the monument is surrounded by a bank, fosse, outer bank and external fosse (ext. dims. c. 70m N-S; 72m E-W) with a possible entrances at S and NW. Identified by ASI aerial photographic survey 2002 (ASIAP (307) 27 and 28) as an enclosure. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016; 25/03/2017 and 28/06/2018. See attached ASI survey image showing the ringfort and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 7 October 2020

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