What is recorded here

Mortals may have built the ring, but the fairies finished it: they took the southeast bank and ran it into the river, leaving a doorway water could breathe through. The fort sits low beside the current in Labbadish, its thin earth ridge barely visible after rain, as if the whole structure had leaned down to listen. What remains is small enough to walk around in a minute, yet the missing part and the dropping ground make it feel less like a ruin and more like an invitation the land is still deciding whether to accept.

Internal diam. c. 27m. A subcircular platform surrounded by a low (.3m high) bank, badly destroyed and gone altogether at the SE, although this may have been an entrance. There are possible traces of a fosse on the W and N sides but not on the E where the land drops away sharply. The ground is good but the site is in a low position beside a river. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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