What is recorded here

Donagh Par. holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a drumlin summit, marked as a fort on an 1834 map but called a fairy fort by local people. The grassy bank rises slightly above the surrounding field, shaping a shallow chamber where human lives or fairy games may have turned. It remains a quiet edge between worlds, large enough to walk around and small enough to disappear into legend.

Situated at the summit of a drumlin. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. It is visible as a slightly raised grass-covered subcircular area (dims 30m E-W; 24.6m N-S) defined by a slight scarp and slightly truncated by WNW-ESE field bank at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 30 August 2017

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Annagola, likely dating to the early medieval period, is situated on a drumlin and depicted on the 1834 OS 6-inch map as a 'fort' in gothic lettering. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk or ancient pagan rituals.

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