What is recorded here
Graigacurragh holds a broken earthen ring where a sharp scarp still cuts the south-facing slope. People called it a fairy fort, but the measure is human: thirty metres across, two metres high, with a narrow break at the north-west. The land remembers hands, not monsters.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (24.3m N-S; 30.8m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.95m; Wth 4m), with external fosse (D 0.35m) at NE; scarp grades into bank (int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.55m) NW->NE. Break (Wth 3.5m) in bank at NNW. Interior, under pasture, slopes up towards centre.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 322/18, 19 on 05/10/2002.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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