What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballymacad is a circular earthen ringfort on a slight rise, its grass-covered interior thirty-nine metres across and its overgrown bank still standing one metre seven high. The entrance faces east-northeast with a causeway crossing the outer fosse, while the south-western bank has worn into a scarp. People may have lived inside this defensible circle before the land forgot their names, or the fairies may have taken the fort from them. Either way the earth remembers the shape of a threshold, and the fold of the landscape still opens northwest as if waiting for someone to enter.

Located on a slight rise in a little fold of the landscape that is open to the NW. This is a slightly domed (H 0.6-1.1m), circular, and grass-covered area (diam. 39.6m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 4.3-6m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1.7m) that is reduced to a scarp S-SW, and an outer fosse (at W: Wth of top 6.5m; ext. D 0.2m). The entrance (Wth of base 2.7m) and causeway (Wth of top 2.9m; H 0.9m) are at ENE. 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: 31 October 2018

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