What is recorded here

Killarue holds a broad earthen ring on the drumlin summit, marked on McCrea’s map in 1793 and still visible beneath grass and scrub. People may have lived, hidden or gathered inside that shallow circle before field banks cut through it, while local imagination later named the fort for fairies because human tools and witness disappeared. The earth remembers shape even when memory leaves it empty.

Located on the summit at the NW end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This monument is marked on McCrea’s map of County Monaghan (1793). It is a raised circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 36m WNW-ESE; 33m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 2.4-3m) and outer fosse (at WNW: Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.5m), but the fosse is very faint NNE-SE. There are entrance gaps at SW (Wth of base 0.9m) and SE (Wth of base 1.4m), both of which could be modern. The interior is bisected by a NNE-SSW field bank and an E-W field bank incorporates the perimeter at S. 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: 8 December 2017

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