What is recorded here

Edenakill holds a broken fairy fort where a shallow earth bank still curves around a flat circular space. The completion of that circle would have required little more than a dozen paces, yet the missing section has given the place the appearance of an unfinished cup or a room deliberately left open. It sits in ordinary farmland country, with damp ground nearby and no grand stone marker to announce it. That absence makes the fort easier to forget and harder to dismiss, because an open ring invites imagination while preserving the shape of human labour.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated in undulating tillage country-side, with swampy ground to S and SE. Flat , circular interior (int. diam. 34m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 4.5m, H 0.7m internally, 3m externally) from W-N-NE.

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