What is recorded here
Keelogalabaun holds a broken fairy fort where human anger or forgetfulness erased the margin. The circle still measures twenty-two metres across, but the bank has bled into a field boundary and the entrance has vanished. What remains is a low ring of earth and stone, wide enough to exclude, thin enough to doubt. It is the shape of a place that stopped being believed.
On a prominent hillock in rolling pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 22.7m) enclosed by a much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1m; H 0.8m max.).The bank has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from NE-E-S. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded fragmentary traces of an external fosse, which are no longer visible. It also referred to a 'berm-like feature [Wth c. 3m] at the outer foot of the bank at W' but this appears to be an entirely natural feature. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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