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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tonywardan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Half the fort is gone, taken for stone or lime, but the remaining circle still stands on the ridge like a chair pulled up to an empty table. People may have lived there, raised children, argued about weather, then vanished into the ordinary world. The fairies never left. They wait for someone stupid enough to build inside the circle.
A short distance off the highest point of a prominent WNW-ESE ridge in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A raised circular area (diam. 21.4m) delimited by a poorly defined scarp (H 0.2-0.55m). The original entrance is not recognisable. A portion of the SE quadrant has been quarried away. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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