What is recorded here

Fairy forts are usually ringforts built by people, and Templeathea West was one of them. A sixty-metre circular bank stood on the south-facing slope above the Galey valley, large enough to hold houses, byres or memories, though no building remains visible now. The pasture has smoothed most of the boundary into a faint ridge, but the shape still resists forgetting.

In pasture, on S-facing slope overlooking valley of River Galey. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. According to local information enclosing element was a single earth-and-stone bank with an external fosse. Line of enclosing element now discernible NW->NE as low rise (H c. 0.3m; Wth 6.8m) and elsewhere as slight scarp (H c. 0.2m; Wth 5m) enclosing roughly circular area (58m E-W; 50m N-S). Interior surface is noticeably uneven and slopes down gently to S. According to local information enclosure contained a Man-made underground passage, but no trace of such a feature is now evident. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 23/04/2006.

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