What is recorded here
Fairy forts are often called haunted, but they are more likely to have been ordinary homes. This one in Kilcolman West is a near-circle of earth about thirty metres across, with a shallow ditch outside and a gap at the east for entry. Cattle have worn two holes in the bank since, and grass covers the flat middle where people may have lived, kept animals or simply marked their claim to the slope. The fort does not need mystery to be interesting; it is still a shape made by hands, holding its line under pasture long after its owners disappeared.
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Sub-circular area (29m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.2m) E->SSW and WSW->NNW. Bank (int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.7m), best preserved along W arc, clipped by field boundary NNW->NNE. Entrance at E (Wth 3.4m); cattle breaks across bank at SSE (Wth 1.6m) and SSW (Wth 1.4m). Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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