What is recorded here

Kilnaclay holds a broken circular fort on a drumlin ridge, its earthen bank still marking a boundary that human hands forgot long ago. The site measures twenty-five metres across and keeps a narrow eastern gap where someone once entered without building a grand gate. A nearby rath watches from the west while the main circle tilts into the slope like a bowl waiting for rain. Fairy fort is the local name, but the shape and gap point to a human home, workshop or refuge that time has half erased.

Located just off the crest of the E-facing summit of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is a circular area (diam. 25m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) that slopes down severely to the E defined by an earthen bank and hedge SSE-W-N, but the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (at E: H 1.1m) elsewhere with traces of an outer fosse NW-NE. A stone field wall overlies the perimeter SW-NW. The most likely entrance (Wth of base 1.5m) is at ESE. Rath (MO013-003----) is c. 80m to the WSW. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 February 2018

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