What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed by later folklore, and Ballyduane is one of them: a shallow oval, twenty metres across, enclosed by a low earth and stone bank with a narrow eastern gap. It sits on a slight slope in pasture, near a fulacht fia, suggesting people lived, cooked, and marked territory there before the field expanded around it. The name fairy fort may record forgetfulness more than magic, yet the place still holds the shape of human choice: a boundary made, a gap left open, and a life lived inside the circle.

In pasture, on slight N facing slope of rising ground, 30m S of the townland boundary with Ballymacashel and 75m SE of a fulacht fia (LI012-126----). Present remains consist of a slightly raised oval-shaped area (int. diam. 20m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.8m; base Wth 4.5m) with stone-revetted entrance gap (Wth 1.45m) at E. The interior is level and overgrown. Large flat stones (approx. dims. 1.2m x 0.7m x 0.25m) forming a revetment at the base of the bank is visible at SE and around the entrance gap. Field clearance material has been dumped on the bank at NE and SW while a field boundary running N-S intersects the perimeter of the monument at E. Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019 shows the monument heavily overgrown with the enclosing bank visible from S through to W. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 18 June 2020

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