What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not places of enchantment. They are human remains: farms, workshops, shelters, and ordinary lives that continued after their names disappeared. A circle in the ground is not a rumour. It is a record. The mystery is not that the place exists. The mystery is that it was forgotten. Reens East preserves what memory failed to keep.
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 31m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 08/04/2015
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of upload: 10 September 2019
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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