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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killyboley (farnee By)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No entrance, no ditch, just a D-shaped earthen bank with stone facing on three sides, cut in two by a farm lane. The missing half may have slid into the field or been taken for roadmaking, but the remaining curve still stands twenty-seven metres long on the drumlin crest. A house without a door is either a trap or a invitation, depending on whether you believe the walls are complete.
Situated just off the crest of the SW-facing slope of a NW-SE drumlin ridge towards the SE end. This is a D-shaped overgrown area (dims 27m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 4.3m; Wth of top 1.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.5m) with an external stone facing SE-W-NW. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The rath is cut by a NW-SE road bank bordering a farm lane at NE and the monument does not survive visibly beyond this. The Man-made underground passage (MO029-022----) is c. 75m to the SW. 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: 29 August 2017

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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Recorded monument

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