What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Herbertstown, County Meath: a circular earthen ring about fifty metres across, with a single ditch and a five-metre gap at the southeast, sitting at the end of a low ridge. People may have lived there, or kept livestock, or simply marked the land before maps existed. The fairies, according to local story, took it over later and refused to leave. Either way, the shape still holds.
Situated at the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 50m) defined by a single fosse feature with an entrance gap at SE (Wth c. 5m) is visible on oblique aerial photographs (LS_AS_67BWN_00042_08; LS_AS_35BWN_00101_16) taken c. 1970 by Leo Swan.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 8 March, 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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