What is recorded here

Fairy fort and ringfort in Ballygawley. The circular enclosure measured about sixty metres inside and eighty overall, with a fosse and outer bank suggested by old maps. It stood beside a trapezoidal enclosure that may have acted as a bailey, forming a larger defensive or domestic compound. Both were levelled in 1959, but the circular shape and its adjoining bank still emerge faintly on satellite imagery, preserving the outline of a place that once controlled entry, exit and perhaps identity itself.

A circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 60m; overall diam. c. 80m) indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision. The cartographic evidence suggests that the interior was enclosed by a fosse and outer bank. The outer bank in the S sector may be incorporated in a field boundary which runs roughly E-W along the S edge. The monument was levelled in 1959 at the same time as a trapezoidal-shaped enclosure (KK018-047----) which lies c. 20m to the NE. The relationship between the monuments is unclear, though physically associated they may not be contemporary, or the trapezoidal enclosure, classified as a moated site by Barry (1977, 186), may have functioned as a bailey for the adjacent enclosure, in which case a ringwork and bailey classification would be more appropriate. Though levelled, the remains of the monument are visible on satellite imagery (Digitalglobe, viewed 7 July 2020) and it appears that the circular enclosure has a further outer bank and fosse which abuts the trapezoidal enclosure. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 7 July 2020

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