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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Aghnacliff

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

A 33m earthen ring stands on a low pasture rise in Aghnacliff, its broad stone bank and steep inner scarp marking a forgotten boundary between human life and fairy belief. No ditch remains, only the solid ridge of a place people shaped before forgetting its name. The southern entrance may still face the road of living memory, while the north wall holds what was buried beneath soil and time.
On a low rise in pasture. A raised circular area (33m E-W; 30.5m N-S) enclosed from NW-N-SSE by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.7-7.2m; H 0.6-0.75m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 1.4-2.1m). There is no trace of a fosse. A report in 1990 (SMR file) suggested that the original entrance was probably at S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 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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