What is recorded here
Glenlary holds a broken earthen ring where a trackway still cuts through the bank, marking a boundary that people crossed rather than avoided. The oval platform rises slightly above reclaimed pasture, preserving the shape of a residence or refuge that has surrendered most of its identity to grass and time. Fairy fort is the local name, but the structure is human: a ringfort reduced to a shallow scarps and gaps where entry once mattered.
In reclaimed pasture, Glenlary Cottage lies 270m to the SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 21m N-S; 24m E-S) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with gaps at NE and SW, intersected at SE and SW by a trackway running NW-SE on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Trace of fosse visible from NW-N-E-S on the Google Earth orthoimage dated 13/08/2021.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 October 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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