What is recorded here

Drumeevin holds a forgotten rath on a prominent ridge, its shallow ditch and low earthen scarp still tracing an oval thirty metres across. Cattle may have trod it into pasture, or people may have lived there before the land changed; either way the ridge kept the shape. The conifers and fields have closed around it, but the ring remains visible from above, waiting to be remembered.

On top of a prominent ridge, aligned WNW-ESE, in hilly poorly drained pasture. Mature conifer plantations are visible to the W and SE, with more recent ones in the fields to the N and S. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Classified as Enclosure in the RMP (1996). On inspection in May 1999, a vague oval enclosure (30m N-S; 25m E-W), defined by a low earthen scarp (H c. 0.1m), was visible intermittently. A shallow ditch (L c. 10m; Wth 2.8m) ran around it at NE. The interior was higher in the centre and sloped to the N and S. Possibly a rath. Its outline is clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe 2011-2013). Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 29 June 2022

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumeevin is a circular earthwork enclosure, likely dating to the early medieval period, associated with both ancient settlement and local folklore of fairy realms. Its hachuring on 19th-century maps suggests recognition of its antiquity, while its prominent ridge-top position may reflect strategic or ritual significance.

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