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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Farnagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the Farnagh ringfort, though a 1975 report described a 26-metre circular bank with drystone facing at its north-east and south-west edges. The earth has been levelled, erasing the entrance and boundary that once shaped the hillside. What disappeared is not nothing; it is a human arrangement returned to soil, waiting for someone to imagine its shape again.
A short distance to the NNW of the highest point of a prominent hill. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. The inner face of the bank had been faced with drystone masonry at NE and SW. There was no trace of a fosse and the original entrance may have been at NE. It has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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