What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Kilmoylan Lower is a rough oval earthwork on a damp south-west slope, about thirty metres across, set ninety metres from Kilmoylan House and looking down a nearby stream. It appeared on the 1840 map as a subcircular enclosure on the house demesne, but vanished from later survey maps, as if the land itself stopped acknowledging it. The name fairy fort suggests people once refused to explain it plainly, yet a ringfort is usually human: a boundary made visible, perhaps for residence, exclusion, memory or warning. Today trees and pasture soften its edge, but the outline still returns in aerial images, keeping the shape alive after human records dropped it.

On SW-facing slope, in rough poorly drained pasture 90m SE of Kilmoylan House, overlooking a stream 45m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a subcircular-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 32m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) standing on the demesne lands of Kilmoylan House with walled garden immediately to W. Not indicated on 1897 OS 25-inch map or revised 6-inch OS map. Monument is visible today as a roughly oval-shaped, partially tree-lined enclosure on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. Outline of monument clearly visible on earlier OSi othophotos. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 12 July 2020

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