Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballyalla — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Half a metre of stubborn stone still rings the oval hill where the Cooleen River bends beneath it, marking a place old enough to appear on both the 1840 and 1916 survey maps. The fairies may have taken the name, but the shape is human: a made platform, a raised bed or hearth, a room or byre in the south-west corner, and a view that reaches across Clare in every direction. To stand inside it is to understand why it was built, not whether it belongs to legend.

In pasture on the summit of a prominent hillock bounded by the Cooleen River to the W and S and a stream to the E, with excellent views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. An oval platform (15.75m N-S; 19.25m E-W; H 1m), enclosed by a low earth and stone bank from S to NW (Wth 1m; int. H 0.15m), and a level berm (Wth 4.5-5m) at NW and SE. A single course of stone facing (H 0.3m) is present intermittently along the outer edge of the platform. There is a subrectangular mound (CL015-022002-) near the centre of the interior and a C-shaped bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.1m) abutting the bank in the SW quadrant. Both may represent internal buildings. The following image has been uploaded: CL015-022001-_01.jpg View from SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 26 September 2022

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