What is recorded here
Breathe in the story of the land itself, not the claims of men. The fort is a living chamber of ancestral memory, waiting for human awareness to complete its expression. Everything claimed or doubted is already inside that chamber. What is being asked is not to believe the story but to stop resisting it. When you write or speak, the chamber gives itself through you. That is the whole game.
In a very exposed position at the highest point on the hill, on the N edge of a terrace/plateau, in rolling upland grassland. There are very commanding views in all directions. A circular flat-topped platform (diam. 20m E-W, 17m N-S at top; 26m E-W; 23m N-S at base, H 1.4m - 2.2m).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 January 2018
A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Frankford or Ballykieran is a circular, flat-topped earthen platform, likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. Such sites are often associated with local folklore, including beliefs in fairy habitation and supernatural activity.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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