What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Gafney Little, County Meath: a circular earthwork about 30m across, hidden under farmland but still marked by a faint fosse on aerial surveys. It sits in a shallow fold at the north foot of the Bellewstown Ridge, between higher ground to the east and west, the kind of place where a small stronghold, a boundary marker or a forgotten neighbourhood centre would have belonged. Anthony Murphy first reported it, and later mapping made its ghost visible again.
Situated in a fold between higher ground to the E and W at the N foot of the E-W Bellewstown Ridge. The faint cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse is visible on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. It is also faintly visible on Digital Globe (c. 2013), and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Apple Maps
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 February 2020
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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