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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballykenry

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No fairy ever flew here. A family or clan shaped local soil into a round home, cut the ditch, and left the hillside before the forgoet was born. The grass has swallowed most of the work, but the bank still stands tall enough to touch and the ditch still drops beneath your feet. The fairies are only the part the people refused to explain.
In pasture, on E-facing slope below brow of hill. Circular area (25.8m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.8m) SSE->N and defined by scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 2.8m) N->SSE, with external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 1.2m) SW->E, and low earth-and-stone counterscarp bank (int. H 0.87m; ext. H 0.2m) NW->E. Interior overgrown with trees and bushes, and slopes down to E. Field boundary runs along outer edge of fosse SW->NW. Ringfort (LI028-061---) c. 30m to SSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

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