What is recorded here

Dead oak boughs choke the shallow ditch where a forgotten hand may have dug, while a uprooted tree lies across the southern bank like a fallen giant. The earth has worn the fort into a low scarp, yet the circular shape still holds against the pasture. That much resistance suggests the site mattered enough to build and defend before time smoothed its edges.

On a gentle SSE-facing slope, in improved rough pasture, overlooking the Cappalaheen River to SE. A roughly circular area (21m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by the remains of a bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m; Wth at top 1.5m; overall Wth 4.85m) which has almost been reduced to a scarp. The bank is best preserved WSW-NW. An external fosse (overall Wth 3.4m; D 0.2m) is visible intermittently and is best preserved SSW-NNE. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope and is obscured for the most part by large dead boughs and branches which have fallen from mature oak trees which align the bank. An uprooted oak tree lies in the centre and on the bank at S. The following images have been uploaded: CL035-125----_01.jpg From ENE. General view of monument – no rods. CL035-125----_02.jpg From SW. Cross sectional view of bank and fosse at NW. CL035-125----_03.jpg From N. Cross sectional view of scarp at E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 April 2018

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Derrymore East is a likely early-medieval agricultural or defensive site, characterized by a circular bank and ditch. Local folklore, common to many such sites in Ireland, associates it with the faé or supernatural beings.

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