What is recorded here
Derreen held a twenty-metre earthen ring on an east-facing slope, visible on maps until ploughs and rubble erased its shape. The fairies keep that forgotten circle, waiting for a person clever enough to stop fighting the field and ask the field what it wants.
In pasture, on ENE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as circular (diam. c. 20m) embanked enclosure, has been levelled. Area of enclosure now evident as slightly depression in which rubble has been dumped. Site contained within narrow strip of land joining larger fields to N and S; slight curve in dry-stone boundary ESE->W may respect enclosure.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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