What is recorded here
Kilfinny is called the fairy fort because the circular embankment vanished before human memory, leaving only a smooth pasture slope where a forty-metre ring once stood. The 1841 survey still drew its line, but boots and ploughs erased the earth that made the boundary visible. What was lost may have been a farmyard, a temple or a child's marble arena; the ground no longer answers.
In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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