What is recorded here

Breaken rules and lost children warn that the fort belongs to fairies, yet charcoal flecks and a clay passage prove people lived there. The ring sits at the SE tip of a low spur beside a small stream, marking a boundary where human memory and fairy story still tangle.

Located at the SE tip of a low NW-SE spur, with the headwaters of a small N-S stream c. 50m to the E. A magnetic gradiometer survey (19R0077) conducted by J. Nicholls on behalf of Meath County Council identified a circular area defined by a fosse-like feature that has discontinuities at NE, S and W (Nicholls 2019, 7). Archaeological testing (19E0565) confirmed a circular enclosure (dims c. 32m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by a silted fosse (Wth of top 1.2-1.6m) that was encountered at three points. The gradiometer survey also identified a linear feature (dims c. 10m E-W; c. 2m N-S) in the interior with a spur (L c. 4m) extending S from its W end. This is probably a Man-made underground passage, and the testing exposed it as a band (Wth 1.8m) of clay and gravel with some stones and flecks of charcoal. There was a post-hole with charcoal just to its N. A second outer ditch (L c. 20m NNE-SSW), recorded by the gradiometer survey c. 10m E of the enclosing fosse was confirmed (Wth 1.4m) as filled with a dark brown silt with charcoal flecks during the testing, but none of the features was sampled. (Moore 2019, 9-14) See the attached plan from (Moore 2019, Fig. 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 1 February 2021

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