What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Beagh, County Monaghan: an oval earthen ringfort at the south end of a drumlin ridge, with a causeway entrance at SE and a sunken passage-like hollow at NW. The banks are overgrown but still clear where they cross the ridge, suggesting a made place rather than a random heap. It may have been a homestead, a boundary marker, or a small defensive stronghold; the fairy name comes later, when people stopped knowing the human purpose and gave the shape to something unseen.

Located at the S end of a short N-S drumlin ridge. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 56.5m NW-SE; 46m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.5m) separated by a fosse (at E: Wth of top 4m; ext. D 0.6m) from an outer earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.9m; ext. H 1.3m) E-SW that is incorporated into a field bank elsewhere. The banks are best preserved at NW and SE where they cross the ridge. The entrance through the inner bank (Wth of base 1.7m) and causeway (Wth of top 4.9m; H 0.9m) are at SE, but the entrance through the outer bank is blocked. There is a sunken area (L 9.9m; Wth 3.6m; max. D 0.85m)inside the perimeter at NW with a spur (L 6.8m; Wth 4.3m) at one end that is probably a collapsed Man-made underground passage. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 30 January 2013

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