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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Daars South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Daars South holds a forty-one-metre earthen ring where ancient boundary became a living haggard. The outer ditch was recut into a three-metre field drain, and the interior now holds livestock rather than memory. What looked like a fairy fort may have been a family yard, a boundary marker, or a child's climbing bank before becoming a farm tool. The name changed the shape of the story, but the earth kept its own line.
In open, flat, mixed tillage and pasture which slopes gently down towards the E. Described in 1972 as a roughly circular area (diam. 41m) defined by a low bank of earth and stone, hedged to enclose the paddocked interior, and an outer fosse recut as a field drain (SMR file). The hedged bank has been levelled and the recut fosse (Wth 3m) encloses an interior which is now used as a haggard, with modern entrances at NE and S. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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