What is recorded here
Magic and memory are entangled in this place. The fairies may have built the fort, but human hands shaped the earth, and both forces still breathe through the hill. What you see is not a mistake or a myth, but a collision of timelines made visible.
Situated on a steep hillock in a low-lying undulating landscape. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 21m ENE-WSW; 18m NNW-ESE) defined by a slight bank that is largely reduced to a scarp (at NE: Wth 3.5m; H 1.6m; at SW: Wth c. 3.5m; H 2.1m) and an external berm (at NE: Wth 3m). The entrance could be at E where the berm is absent.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 9 January 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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