Discover Alone, back to main map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Keelogalabaun

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Keelogalabaun holds a broken fairy fort where human anger or forgetfulness erased the margin. The circle still measures twenty-two metres across, but the bank has bled into a field boundary and the entrance has vanished. What remains is a low ring of earth and stone, wide enough to exclude, thin enough to doubt. It is the shape of a place that stopped being believed.
On a prominent hillock in rolling pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 22.7m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1m; H 0.8m max.).The bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from NE-E-S. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded fragmentary traces of an external fosse, which are no longer visible. It also referred to a 'berm-like feature [Wth c. 3m] at the outer foot of the bank at W' but this appears to be an entirely natural feature. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places