What is recorded here

Fennor Upper in County Meath once held a circular earthen ringfort thirty to thirty-five metres across, visible on the 1836 map but reduced to a fragment by 1969 after field banks cut through its southern and western edges. The loss of so much structure in a few decades suggests the fort was never sacred or untouchable, but ordinary land that people reshaped for farming. What remains is a ghost of a boundary, its shape preserved only in gothic lettering and memory.

Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30-35m) is depicted only on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’. A small fragment of a bank was extant in 1969 (SMR file), but the monument was truncated by a NW-SE field bank at SW and a NE-SW field bank at S. 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: 31 October 2018

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