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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynacragga

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No fairy is named in the facts, but the fort keeps its shape beneath pasture and bramble. A person may have walked through the wide eastern breach with cattle, using the oval bank as a temporary trap for life and weather. The missing western edge does not remove the place; it hands the fort over to imagination, where the unfinished circle becomes a chamber for unseen guests.
In pasture, at W foot of low N-S ridge. Roughly oval area (19.4m N-S; 14.7m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2.6m) with external fosse (Wth 1m; D 0.2m); fosse truncated on W side by N-S field boundary. Enclosing element obscured by dense overgrowth on W side; otherwise bank partially clad with brambles. Profile of bank uneven due to slumping, especially noticeable at NW. Breach in bank (Wth 6.6m) E->SE (shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map); no other entrance evident but width of opening suggests widened to allow cattle access interior. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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