What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because people stopped remembering they were human. In Ballinena, two earthen banks still trace an oval pasture, cut by a field boundary as if ownership itself forgot the shape. The western bank rises seventy centimetres, tall enough to mark a threshold but not a wall, inviting wonder rather than fear.

In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Oval area (38.5m NW-SE; 31.2m NE-SW) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) grades to a scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2m) E->N, but outer bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.25m) evident all round. Greatest external bank height of outer bank is at WSW (H 0.7m). Enclosure is dissected by field boundary travelling on NW-SE axis (approx. two-thirds of enclosure lies NE of boundary). Interior slopes down to W and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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