What is recorded here

Half-hidden in ferns and heather beneath the Ox Mountains, the fairy fort in Ellagh Beg keeps its circular shape inside a low stone bank. It sits where rough pasture has given way to trees, close enough to the stream valley for water to mark the townland’s edge. The fort may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a place people avoided after dark, but its stones still draw the eye in a landscape that has stopped paying attention.

In an area of rough, stony heather-covered pasture, now largely converted to forestry, in the foothills of the Ox Mountains. There is rising ground to S−SE, and to N−NW ground falls for c. 75m into a small stream valley; the townland boundary coincides with the course of the stream. Roughly circular area (diam. 25-30m) defined by a low sod-covered stone bank/wall (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1m). Low heather-covered field walls (Wth c. 1m; H 0.4-0.5m) radiate from the enclosure at SW and NE. Interior obscured by a dense growth of ferns. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

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