Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Fiddaun (kiltartan By.),isertkelly North

Fiddaun holds a broken circular rath twenty-three metres across, its earthen bank still visible from north-northeast through south to southwest while the northwest has vanished beneath a later boundary wall. The fort sits in gently undulating pastureland beside rock outcrop, small enough to have suited a family, a herder or a seasonal refuge rather than a grand castle. Its name feeds the fairy story, but the shape and size point to ordinary human occupation: a place to keep people, animals or belongings together when the land turned wet, cold or hostile.