What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not witchcraft but human memory made visible when forgotten. In Dromeliagh, a shallow earthen ring still marks a place where people lived, watched the land, and left behind a boundary the field has never fully erased. The fairies enter later because the human meaning has thinned.
Situated in poorly-drained, gently undulating pasture with good views to S and E. The monument consists of a roughly circular area (20m E-W; 17.4m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 3.35m; H 0.6m). There is a trace of a possible external fosse at N (Wth 1.6m; D 0.2m). There is a dip in the scarp to SSW (Wth 3m). Interior slopes down to SE.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 18 June 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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