What is recorded here

Fairy forts in Pallasbeg hide inside damp pasture, wearing earthen rings that look like abandoned toys rather than human defences. The local story claims the fairies built them in a single night, yet the measured banks and fosses suggest persistent human labour instead. Both truths can coexist: people may have lived there, and the fairies may have inherited the shape afterward.

In undulating damp pasture. Oval area (19m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 3.2m; H 0.7m) with a fosse (overall Wth 6.2m; basal Wth 1.8m; D 0.2m) at its base. Outside this are two concentric earthen banks: inner bank (Wth 8.25m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.75m) best preserved W-NNE and ESE-SW but is levelled NNE-ESE and reduced to scarp S-W; outer bank (Wth 6.9m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.25m) separated from latter by fosse (overall Wth 8.05m; basal Wth 3m; D 0.15m) and outside it is the outermost fosse (Wth 4.9m; D 0.05m). Possible causewayed entrances at E and SSE (Wth 4m and 5m respectively). Interior grass covered and surface slightly uneven. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 December 2013

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