What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there, though the name insists it. A human hand threw earth into a circle wide enough for a household, cut a ditch around it, and left a gap on the east where a causeway bridged the water or mud. The road later bit through the west edge, but the ring still holds its shape in pasture beside Cloghnamanagh, waiting to be imagined as small, defiant, and old.

In pasture, 315m W of a townland boundary with Cloghnamanagh. Enclosure (LI031-031----) lies 200m to SE and ring-barrow (LI031-033----) lies 270m to E, respectively. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (45m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE) which is truncated across the W edge by a public road. Referred to by O’Kelly (1944, 49) as Earthwork Type B and described as: ‘A circular platform on the edge of which there is a bank. It is surrounded by a fosse. The entrance is on the E side where the fosse is causewayed opposite a break in the bank. The overall diameter is 100’ (30m)’. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 November 2020

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