What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped understanding them. This is a stone ringfort in marshy Donegal uplands: an oval enclosure, sixteen to twenty metres across, with a collapsed wall and a possible southwest entrance. The name records forgotten knowledge, not the loss of human agency.

Internal diam. 16m-20m. An oval-shaped area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall surviving in places up to .5m in height. A gap 2.8m on the SW side might indicate the entrance. It is situated in very marshy uplands. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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