What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen rings people once lived in or marked before they stopped using them. In Rooskagh East the ring still shows as a shallow scarped edge, a narrow fosse and a counterscarp bank around level marshy pasture. Cattle have worn paths across the scarp, and a field drain cuts through part of the enclosure. The names change, but the shape remains a small made circle on a hillside, the kind of place where people may have kept animals, stored things or simply drawn a line around their own world.

In pasture, on a NW- facing sloped terrace on the N side of a low hill. Circular area (19.2m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 1m) with an external fosse (D 0.8m; Wth 1.7m) and a counterscarp bank (int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.5m). An E-W running field drain truncates the enclosing element ESE->SW. Cattle have worn paths across the scarp at NW, NNW and ESE. The interior is level and covered by rough marshy pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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