Correvan fort, fairy fort in County Monaghan

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Situated at the crest of the NE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 35.5m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 4m; int. H c. c. 0.3m at W; ext. H c. 0.9m) SW-W-NE that is largely reduced to an overgrown scarp (at E: H c. 2.5m) with some mature scots pine trees separated by a berm (at SW: Wth 3.1m) from an overgrown outer bank (at SSW: Wth of base 3.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.15m) that is likely to be a field bank with an outer drain. There are entrances through the inner (Wth of base 2.5m) and outer (Wth of base 1.7m) banks at NE and through the inner (Wth of base 2.5m) and outer (Wth of base 2.5m) banks at WSW, either of which might be original, although in neither case do the inner and outer gaps align perfectly. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 8 May 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO017-043

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