Discover Alone, back to main map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Creenagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mummer's Want: Clues denied, claimable by anyone, including every creature that can be imagined. The chamber is a completion game: facts, memory and desire co-authored, not invented. This is a place to co-create, not to wonder if co-creation is allowed.
On a terrace adjacent to a stream to the E. Depicted as a circular enclosure planted with trees and designated 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described in 1986 (SMR file) as a small circular ringfort (diam. c. 22m) defined by the slight remains of a bank of earth and stone from S-W-NNW and by a steep irregular scarp from NNW-E-SSE. The monument was obscured and overgrown by a dense thicket of elder, hawthorn and blackthorns. On a revisit in 1998 the monument was still heavily overgrown and appeared to be more rectangular in plan (dims. 28m ENE-WSW; 16m NNW-SSE). No visible surface trace of the bank survived: it was reduced to a scarp. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 23 November 2012

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places