What is recorded here

Three earthen rings and two cutting ditches still mark a 27-metre grass circle beside a Clare stream, yet the nested banks and blocked entrance suggest more than a ordinary farming enclosure. The name Fairy fort may be local story rather than fact, but it fits the place: a hidden ring, low and wet, where human hands built layers of exclusion.

In a low-lying position on the N bank of a stream. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A trivallate ringfort comprising a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 27m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.6-7m; int. H 0.6m at ENE to 1.5m at WSW; ext. H 1.4m generally to 2.8m at WSW) which is separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.5-5m; D 0.6-0.8m) from a central bank (Wth 4-7.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.7m) N-W. A second fosse (Wth of base 1.2m) separates the central bank from an outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.25m) N-SE. There is a causeway (Wth 4m; H 0.6m) across the outer fosse and a blocked entrance (Wth 2m) in the central bank at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April 2020

A trivallate earthen ringfort in Ballymackea Beg, likely dating to the early medieval period, characterized by a circular grass-covered area with an internal diameter of 27 meters and a bank on the western side. Local tradition refers to it as a fairy fort, reflecting the common Irish folklore associating such sites with supernatural beings.

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