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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Barry (shrule By., Kilcommock Ed)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

That is a fairy fort, a stone ringfort on a gentle southwest-facing slope in County Longford. Its circular ground is forty-three metres across, bounded partly by a collapsed stone wall and partly by a scarp, while the entrance has vanished without a trace. A shallow L-shaped depression sits northeast of the centre, waiting to be understood. The fort is not grand, but it is exact: a small circle of stone, earth and forgetting, still holding its shape in pasture.
On a gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 43m) enclosed from NE-E-SSE by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 2.5m; H 0.2m) and defined from SSE-S-SW by a scarp (H 1m). Elsewhere a low rise indicates its outline. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow L-shaped depression, of unknown significance, to the NE of the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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