What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not for the use of people. They belong to the hidden life beneath the soil. This is a warning as much as a wonder. The fort on the Lurgachamlough spur may have been human once, but it has crossed over. That is why it resists memory and measurement. To enter it is to leave the world of humans behind.

Located on the tip of a short N-S spur. An oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 40m N-S; c. 30m E-W) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. It was known locally as a fort (IFC: Schools MSS vol. 941, 136), for which see this web-page accessed on 04/05/2018: https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes Some of the perimeter might survive in a field bank around a haggard S-W (Chord c. 25m). 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 Revised by: Michael Moore. Date of revision: 9 May 2018

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