What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Bearnafunshin: circular stone ring, 26m wide, on a hidden pasture ridge in County Clare, mapped as an enclosure since 1840. Its broken wall, shallow entrance and small inner cairn suggest people lived, marked or remembered there before field walls swallowed the shape. The name “fairy” may be mischief, awe or dismissal, but the stones still describe a room built for human hands.

On the W and SW-facing slope of an irregular ridge in pasture with very limited views. Hachured as a circular enclosure on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A circular overgrown area (int. diam. 26m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 4.5-6.5m; int. 0.6-1m; ext. H 1-1.2m) with some external facing (H 1.2m) at NW. There is a gap (Wth 1.2m) which is not original at ENE, while an entrance (Wth 2m) at SW may be original. Much of the perimeter is overlain by a drystone field wall. The interior is generally level and there is a small cairn (diam. 4m ; H 0.6m) 10m inside the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

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