What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because people stopped remembering they were human. In Lamagh, a circular earthwork stood on a pasture slope with a wide outside ditch and a possible southwest entrance. Farmers later levelled it for grass, erasing the very shape that made it a fort. The fairies never lived there; human memory did, until the plough removed it.

On a SW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1967 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with a wide, deep, external fosse. The original entrance may have been at SW. It has since been levelled and only the outline of its perimeter is identifiable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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