What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Derrinstown, County Kildare: a worn earthen ring, forty-seven metres across, set in stud-farm pasture near the Lyreen River. People called it a fairy fort because the shape suggested more than a boundary ditch; perhaps it marked a home, a shrine or a gathering place before the land became fields. The bank still stands low and broken, yet clear enough to walk around.

In level pasture on a stud farm, c. 100m SW of the Lyreen River, and planted with trees as a landscaped feature. A poorly preserved sub circular area (int. diams. 47m E-W; 45m N-S) is defined by an arc of low, earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N-E, and by a shallow, dry, outer fosse (Wth 2.3m; D 0.6m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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