What is recorded here

Inchacooly holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on the west bank of the Black River, its inner bank still rising thirteen centimetres above the forgotten floor. Badger holes pierce the overgrown earth while drainage spoil chokes the space between the fort and the water, turning a human boundary into a messy living landscape. The name Fairy fort suggests people once believed the ring belonged elsewhere, yet the measured banks and cutting mark a genuinely built place where someone drew a line around their own life before the river and badgers inherited it.

Situated on W bank of the Black River. A subcircular enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 30m N-S) defined by an inner bank (max. Wth c. 5.5m; ext. H 1.3m) best preserved from S-NNW, an intervening fosse (Wth at base 1.3m), and an outer bank which is only barely discernible from S-W but more pronounced at N. The site is badly overgrown, full of badger holes, and drainage spoil lies between it and the river. Possibly a ringfort. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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