Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Indicated — Ballinafad

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
Indicated — Ballinafad
Photo: Credit not shown in the picture search · Open the original picture · Rights wording not checked; contact us if this picture should be removed · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

At the N end of a low N-S ridge, on the gentle E-facing slope. Oval area (dims 46m N-S; 33m E-W) used as a garden, defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 5.3-7.5m; Wth of top 1.4-3.2m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 1-1.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) incorporated into a field bank NNW-NE, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 4-6.2m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.6-1m) which is re-cut as a drain and pond S-W. There is a modernised entrance (Wth 4m) at SSE. Rath (RO029-124----) is c. 210m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.