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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Garran Otra or Gibraltar

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No wall, trench or ridge remains visible beside the abandoned farmyard. The place exists only through a small embanked mark and gothic lettering on an 1834 map, drawing an imaginary fort where ordinary ground may never have worn one.
Located towards the bottom of the S-facing spine of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m) just SW of some houses and described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There is no visible evidence of an antiquity just SW of an abandoned farmyard. 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: 26 January 2018 Revised by: Michael Moore

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