What is recorded here

Thirty metres of raised earth still mark the ringfort in Ruppulagh pasture, though farm boundaries have cut across it and trees now outline its oval body. The name fairy fort suggests people once refused to believe the circle belonged to ordinary life. Maybe a family kept a gate, fire or threshold there before the fields swallowed the meaning.

In pasture75m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballyshane. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 60m NE-SW; 55M NW-SE) defined by a scarp from NE-S-NW incorporated into a field boundary elsewhere with an external fosse from SW-NW. Intersected at NE and NW by field boundary running NE-SW. Visible as an oval-shaped area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 November 2021

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ruppulagh is a sub-circular, earthen enclosure likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. It is associated with local folklore regarding fairy activity, common in such sites across Ireland.

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