What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Longfield Etra is a grass-covered knoll with a flat top and faint scarp traces, mapped as a circular embanked enclosure in 1834. It sits beside a stream on a NE-facing slope in County Monaghan, where the land still holds the shape of a fort even though digging found no related material. The place may have been a home, a marker or a story made visible, but the earth keeps that answer back.

Located on a knoll at the bottom of a NE-facing slope and c. 30m S of a NW-SE stream. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The top of the grass-covered knoll is flat (diam. c. 30m) and faint traces of a scarp survive W-N. Archaeological testing (21E0212) by L. Clarke c. 10m to the W at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2020:069). 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: 28 July 2017 Amended: 23 December, 2021

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