What is recorded here

Killasona holds a D-shaped ringfort on a terrace above a stream, its earth and stone bank still standing beside a shallow fosse. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the steep drop to the flood-plain made the place feel hidden, owned and dangerous. The neat break in the NE bank suggests an entrance, while the rest of the perimeter relies on the cliff itself.

On a natural terrace above the flood-plain of a stream to the SW. This raised D-shaped area (50m NW-SE; 37.5m NE-SW), with a straight SW side, is enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.5-5.9m; H 0.6-1.25m), a shallow intervening fosse (Wth 6.8-8m; D 0.3-0.65m) from WNW-N-SSE and an outer bank (Wth 4-4.5m; H 0.4-1.05m). Elsewhere the defining element is a steep, natural drop (H 3-5m) to the flood-plain below. A break (Wth 5m) in the bank at NE probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 16 January 2012

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