What is recorded here

Kilmeage holds a faded fairy fort where a tall earthen ring once blocked the pasture slope. People may have lived inside that circle before ploughs and boundaries cut through its walls. The earth still rises slightly, remembering the shape of a home that ownership and time have nearly erased.

Described in 1972 as a roughly oval-shaped rath (diams. 59m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an inner bank of earth and stone, which was hedged as a field boundary and gapped at W and S, and by an outer fosse. By 1986, the monument had been reduced to a low rise (H 0.6m) surrounded by a cropmark of thistles (SMR file). On a gentle S-facing pasture slope. The monument is still visible as a very slightly raised, oval area but later field boundaries, shown on the 1st (1838) and latest ed. (1910) of the OS 6-inch map radiating off the monument at NNW, NE, S and WNW, have been extended to join up in the interior of the site. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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