Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Danestown, County Meath

What is recorded here

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). 41m ENE-WSW, 34m NNW-SSE) with external fosse and outer bank (max. ext. dim. 82m ENE-WSW). . Entrance and causeway at SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME032-007

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives: Recorded monument

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Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Rob Hurson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Patrick Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Anthony Foster, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Neil Forrester, Co.Meath, Ireland. http://neil.forrester.ie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0