What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because people stopped remembering the hands that built them. In Ballynacourty, a broken circular bank still marks where someone shaped land into a defensible room, perhaps with a gate, fire, and fear of losing it. The fairies enter only when human memory thins; they do not create the fact that people lived there.

In rough pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (29.5m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.95m; Wth 2m) S->SE, and enclosed by eroded earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m) SE->S. Scarp best preserved along N arc. Field boundary runs tangentially to base of scarp along E side. Concentric earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.2m) runs for c. 4.5m at SSE, may be remains of counterscarp bank. Interior, covered by mature deciduous and coniferous trees, slopes down to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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