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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Enagh (trough By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Enagh holds a broad low earthen ring thirty metres across on a drumlin summit, marked as a fort only on the 1834 map. The earth has softened the angle until the fort becomes a breath in the grass, large enough to contain a handful of people or a single stubborn thought. What rages inside such a small circle is hard to say, but the land still shapes itself around the memory of being held.
Located at the summit of a small N-S drumlin ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 28m NE-SW; c. 26m NW-SE) defined by a broad but low earthen 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: 12 December 2017

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