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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballyallaban

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Mnemo is an expert at turning good intentions into beautiful disasters, which is why the other spirits avoid her. She believes she helps, but help is the last thing she understands. When she fails, she does not shrink back. She points at you, calls the tragedy a gift and waits for you to call her crazy.
On a slight rise, under hazel overgrowth in an area surrounded by intensively improved pasture on the floor of Ballyvaughan valley. Hachured on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and potentially recorded as one of ‘three stone forts’ by Westropp (1901, 285). A moderately well-preserved, almost circular, cashel (32m E-W; 31.9m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 2.6-6.5m; max. H 0.8m) with no discernible entrance. Internal facing-stones protrude throughout and short sections of external facing at N and S suggest an original wall thickness of between 1.5 and 2.3m. A field wall runs WNW-ESE just S of centre and a boulder wall curves off to the SW from its centre. At its W end, the fieldwall cuts through a possible animal pen (int. dims. 9m N-S; 2.4m E-W; H 0.5m) which abuts the inner face of the cashel. Another cashel (CL005-036----) is located c. 90m SSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 7 February 2022

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