What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped remembering their own history. This is a ringfort in Kilclone, County Meath: a level grass and rush basin about fifty metres across, bounded by a broad earthen bank and an outer ditch, with a narrow entrance at the east-southeast where a causeway once crossed the fosse. The name suggests forgetting more than magic. People built it, lived beside it, stopped using it, and later invented fairies to explain what they had stopped understanding.

Situated on a level landscape. This is a subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 50m W-E; 44m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 7m; int. H 0.12-0.3m) with some bushes often reduced to an external scarp (H 1-1.1m), with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5-8m; ext. D 0.5-0.9m). The entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at ESE where there is slight dip in the perimeter and traces of a causeway across the fosse. 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 upload: 10 July 2007 Amended: 29 October 2021

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