What is recorded here

That is the causeway: a narrow neck of packed earth where the inner and outer rings touch, forcing every entrance into one line. The fort is not a flat circle but a twisted oval, 29 metres long and 28 wide, set on the spine of a drumlin ridge where the land rises like the back of an animal. The eastern gap is small, the banks are broad, and the whole place has been swallowed by grass, scrub and field boundaries until it becomes a hidden room in the terrain.

Located on the SE-facing spine of a slight NW-SE drumlin ridge overlooking a slight col with equally high ground c. 100m to the SE. This is a circular grass and scrub-ocvered area (diam. 29m NW-SE; 28m ENE-WSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6-6.5m; nt. H 0.5-1.1m; ext. H 2.2-2.6m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 6.2-8m; Wth of base 1m; ext. D 1.8-2m) from an overgrown outer bank (at NW: Wth of base 4m; ext. H 0.5m) that is incorporated into a field bank NNW-E; and it is incorporated into a field bank and townland boundary with Cornacrew to the SE (at SE: Wth of base 4m; ext. H 1.2m) SE-S (max. ext. diam. 47m NW-SE). The original entrance (Wth of base 2.3m) and traces of a causeway are at 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: 6 December 2017

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