What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Finniterstown: earthen ringfort, 19 by 23 metres, divided by a straight avenue to a disused farmyard. The avenue has gate piers and a dry-stone wall; the surrounding bank is half a metre high and stone-faced where it joins field boundaries. Rubble has been dumped inside to the west, but pasture still covers the eastern part. The shape suggests a lived place rather than a fairy tale, even if local story calls it a fairy fort.

In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (19m N-S; 23m E-W) divided, W-of-centre, by straight N-S avenue (Wth c. 3m) leading to disused farmyard to N. Avenue defined on W side by dry-stone wall; where avenue cuts enclosing element to N is pair of gate piers. Site is enclosed by earthen bank (H c. 0.5m), stone-faced externally NW->SE where it act as field boundary. Bank abutted by field boundaries at SE, SW and WSW. Interior of enclosure to W of avenue is covered by recent dumping of rubble etc. Area to E of avenue under pasture and rises gently up towards enclosing bank. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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