What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human origins, but local stories remember them as fairy homes. That is why people stopped touching the rings or taking stones from them. The warning is not about pretending. It is about respecting the lives already living inside the story.

Situated on a shelf on the crest of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge at its S end. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c.25m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’, and as an arc of hachures SE-W-NW on the 1907 edition. This is an oval grass and scrub-covered area (dims 37.3m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) that slopes down to the SE and is defined by an external scarp (at S: Wth 4m; H 2.5m) E-S-W and a low bank (at NW: Wth 5.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.5m) W-N-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. It is bisected by an E-W field bank. 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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