What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Grange Glebe: a 22-metre grass ring on a slight rise beside a canalised stream in County Meath. Its scarp and shallow fosse still mark a small defended or ceremonial place, though no map now records it. People may have lived, hid or performed rituals there before the land was changed; the name preserves that forgotten life.
Located on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape and on the S bank of a canalised WNW-ESE stream. This feature is not depicted on any map. It is a low circular grass-covered platform (diam. 22m NNE-SSW: 21.5m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (at WSW: Wth 3.4m; H 1.1m), with a fosse (Wth of top 3.3m; Wth of base 1.8m; ext. D 0.25m) SE-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: 12 April 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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