What is recorded here

A circular earthen ringfort with a forty-metre diameter sits on the eastern edge of a north-south drumlin ridge in Kilmore East. It appeared only on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map, where gothic script labelled it a fort, yet local tradition calls it a fairy dwelling. A field bank preserved part of the ridge until 1995, when ploughing erased the last visible curve. The fort vanished not through disaster but through ordinary farm work, leaving behind a name that suggests something still breathes beneath the soil.

Located just off the E edge of a N-S drumlin ridge. A circular enclosure with trees on the perimeter (diam. c. 40m), which is described in gothic script as a ‘fort’, is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A curve of a field bank E-SW survived in 1984 and could have incorporated part of the bank, but this had been removed by 1995 (OSAP). 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: 13 December 2017

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