What is recorded here

One chamber, one door, one living person. The Fort of Miracles in Ballyhegan is a circular stone ringfort, about forty metres across, where a collapsed bank still stands twelve feet high at the northeast edge while straight field walls have taken over the west and north. It is the kind of place people called a fairy fort because ordinary explanation stopped at its edge. If it is a fairy fort, it is a fort for the moment when human tools run out and imagination takes the wall into its own hands.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Original bank represented by bank of stone collapse (max. ext. H at NE 1.2m). Straight field walls have replaced bank at W and N, but site appears to have been originally circular (est original diam. c. 40m). Aerial photograph (GB89.S.15) shows well preserved ringfort (Barrett 1989).

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