What is recorded here

Half-buried at the north end of a low ridge in Galmoystown, the fairy fort keeps its shape beneath grass and memory. A sweeping earthen bank rises somewhere, drops elsewhere, and leaves a shallow ramp at the southwest, as if the circle once admitted people rather than excluding them. The fairies may have taken the name, but the measured line and domed ground suggest human hands shaped a small defensible place before the landscape softened it.

Situated towards the N end of a low ridge in an undulating low-lying landscape. This is a circular and slightly domed (H 0.7-1m) grass-covered area (diam. 23.7m NE-SW; 21.5m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) WSW-N that is reduced to a scarp (at NE: Wth 4.3m; H 2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is a ramp entrance (Wth of base 3.9m) at SW. 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: 9 January 2019

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