What is recorded here

Fairy fort and rath stood together on a Clonard Old rise, the oval platform forty metres long and the narrow stream twenty metres away. People may have entered at the southeast gap, crossed the grassy dome, and used the fosse as a boundary rather than a defensive wall. The fort and rath faced one another across open ground, suggesting a small settled place where domestic life and ceremonial life shared the same horizon.

Situated on a rise in a level landscape with the canalised NW-SE Clonard stream c. 20m to the SW. This was described in 1969 (SMR file) as a grass-covered, oval, and slightly domed (H 0.7m) platform (dims 40 E-W; 21m N-S) defined by a fosse (at NW: Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 2m; int. D 0.9m; ext. D 0.1m: at SE: Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 3m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 1m). There were slight indications of an entrance at SE, and rath (ME047-003----) was immediately to the E. The visible profile had been removed by 1985. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 13 August 2019

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