What is recorded here

Knockakirwan holds a broken fairy fort where a grassy circle, sixty feet across, still rests on a low ridge. Earthen banks and a shallow ditch mark the south and west, but the north has vanished under fields and memory. The name suggests people once believed fairies lived there, yet the shape matches a human home or stronghold. You can walk the surviving edge and feel the missing half only as absence.

Located on a low N-S ridge. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 37m N-S) defined by a slight earthen bank (at SW: Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.65m) separated by a fosse (at SW: Wth of top 6.15m; Wth of base 2.6m) from a larger outer bank, which forms the townland boundary with Corlattallan an probably also incorporates a field bank with an outer re-cut drain. The defining features only survive S-W-N and the perimeter cannot be traced N-E-S, but there is a modern house and garden just outside it to the E. 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: 25 July 2017

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