What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Fallowbeg Lower is a 30-metre oval in County Laois, Ireland, marked by a four-metre bank and shallow outer ditch. It has no visible entrance, as if the boundary itself was the point. People may have lived inside, avoided it, or simply noticed that the land had shaped a room without a door.

An oval-shaped area (dim. 30m N-S) defined by a bank (Wth c. 4m, int. H c. 0.35m, ext. H c. 1.5m), except from NE-E, and a shallow external fosse (Wth c. 7m, ext. D c. 1m). No evidence of original entrance. Reference to a rath here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 301). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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