What is recorded here

Yes. An earthen ringfort stood at the east end of a Clare ridge, measured twenty-eight metres across before human greed erased it. Mapmakers traced its curve in 1840 and 1897, but a bungalow now occupies the western field while trackways cut through its remaining ghost. The fairies did not leave; they simply stopped being visible to the people who stopped seeing them.

Near the E end of an ESE-WNW running ridge, in hilly badly drained pasture with mature conifer plantations to the E and S. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 28m E-W; c. 23m N-S). On the OS 25-inch plan (1897) an external fosse is shown from SW to WNW and a trackway, leading to a farmhouse c. 70m to the W, ran just outside from E to SSW. Listed in the RMP (1996) as Enclosure. On field inspection in May 1999, no surface trace was visible. A bungalow had been built in the field immediately to the W. The nature of the ground suggested that it was probably a rath. Most of its outline is visible on aerial imagery dated 2005 (see OSi Ortho 2005). At that stage another trackway cut through its E limits and continued inside its N limits and continued westwards behind the bungalow. It is not visible on more recent imagery (OSi digitaglobe 2011-2013). Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 29 June 2022

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumeevin is a subcircular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. It is traditionally associated with fairy folklore, as its name suggests, reflecting local beliefs in otherworldly inhabitants.

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