What is recorded here

No fairies built the fort in Ballynacloghy. People raised a pear-shaped bank on the rise above Lackanaloy Creek, perhaps faced it with stone inside, and left a house footprint in the north-west corner. A narrow track still leaves the fort and reaches another enclosure, tying the place into a small lived landscape rather than a lonely mound. The creek, grass and remaining bank preserve the shape of that choice.

On a rise in pastureland overlooking Lackanaloy Creek to NW. Pear-shaped rath (26.8m E-W; 22.7m N-S), in fair condition, long axis NW-SE, defined by a bank which, according to McCaffrey (1952, 174, no. 12), may have been stone-faced internally. Possible house foundations (GA102-003002-; L 11m; Wth 5m) are visible in NW quadrant of the interior. A raised trackway (L c. 30m) extends from NW for a distance of 30m and leads to a subcircular enclosure (GA102-003001-). (Holt 1912, 230) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

A pear-shaped earthen ringfort in Ballynacloghy, likely dating to the early medieval period, situated on a rise overlooking Lackanaloy Creek. Local tradition associates it with fairy lore, as suggested by its common name "Fairy fort," reflecting beliefs in supernatural inhabitants of such sites in Irish folklore.

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