What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Finniterstown stood thirty-five metres wide on a high pasture ridge, visible on the 1840 map but vanished by 1897. Three farm buildings leaned against its southern bank, perhaps using the old stone for walls or simply claiming the warm dry ground. The fort did not resist the changing field; it became the field, its ridge softened into grass and memory.

In undulating pasture, located 200m S of the townland boundary with Baurnalicka. Finniterstown House lies 280m to the SW. The site is depicted as a circular fort (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. A trigonometrical station is shown on its N bank suggesting that the site is located on a high point in the field. The map shows three small farm buildings abutting the S and SW edge of the enclosure. The monument and the outbuildings are not depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map which indicates that the monument was levelled between these dates. The field is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 12 August 2020

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