What is recorded here

Glanballyma held a twenty-metre earthen ring on a sunny slope, marked by a bank and ditch until the late 1950s. It is no longer than a shallow saucer in pasture, yet the 1841 map showed a cave inside, hinting that people dug beneath the fort before they forgot it. The fairies kept the name, but human hands built the circle, lived within it, and vanished so completely that even the ditch disappeared.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map (1892) map as a circular area (diam. c. 20m) fully enclosed by a bank and by an external fosse NW-SW. According to the landowner, the ringfort was levelled sometime in the late 1950s. When inspected in 1985 it was visible as a low saucer-shaped rise (H 0.4m; 25m N-S; 24m E-W) best preserved E-W. No trace of a fosse was noted. On the 1st ed. (1841) OS 6-inch map a ‘cave’, suggesting the presence of a Man-made underground passage (KE022-022001-), is depicted within the interior just N of centre. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 28 February 2014

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