What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts at all. They are ordinary human ringforts, misnamed because people stopped remembering the humans who built them. In Teemore, a circular fort stood on a pasture slope, mapped clearly in 1837. By 1975, ploughs and patience had reduced it to a shallow ditch and faint bank shadows. The fairies never lived there. They inherited what humanity forgot.

On a SW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the monument had been almost completely levelled and all that was visible was the faint outline of a fosse with faint traces of a bank on either side of it. Apart from a well-defined, wide, shallow fosse (Wth 2.6-3m) from ENE-S-NNW, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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