What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts. They are human ringforts, mislabelled by folklore after people stopped remembering their own history. In Faraghy, a forty-metre circular bank stood on a slope above Lough Namachree, visible enough for surveyors to mark it in 1834. It may have housed families, stored grain or served as a boundary marker before becoming a story about fairies. The label changed, but the shape remained: a circle of earth built by people who wanted to belong somewhere.

Situated on a NE-facing slope overlooking Lough Namachree, which his c. 300m to the N. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) is faintly depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. Traces of a bank could be preserved in a curve of a field bank NE-SE. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 31 January 2018

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