What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often dismissed as fantasy, yet this earthen ring in Creelaghta is a real place where imagination and memory still move. The bank and fosse mark a boundary, not a prison, and the causeway invites entry rather than warning against it. To call it a fairy fort is not to reject evidence but to admit that some thresholds belong to more than human history.

At the NW edge of a low rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 37.5m) enclosed from NW-N-NE and from ESE-S-SSW by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.5m; H 0.8-0.9m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.4m). Elsewhere the bank and fosse have been levelled and the defining element is a scarp (H 1.3-1.65m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted slight traces of an outer bank at NW and that a gap in the bank at E with a causeway may have marked the original entrance. The interior is planted with beech and oak trees. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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