What is recorded here
Fairy forts hide in plain sight, wearing drystone walls and farmyard purpose until someone stops to look. That is what happened at Mylerstown, where a forgotten ring reappeared inside an ordinary field. The fairies did not leave a tower or temple. They left a circle broad enough to remember, waiting for human eyes to return it to the world.
On a gentle E-facing slope in tillage. A poorly preserved, slightly raised and densely overgrown circular area (int. diam. 33m) is defined by a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 1.8m) which has been recut as a field drain. The interior is covered with material from levelled field boundaries to the N and E, cleared in 1985 according to local information. An entrance gap (Wth 5.7m) at NW appears to be modern. Visible on a recent aerial photograph (OSi Orthophoto 2005).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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