What is recorded here

Maidstown holds a twenty-four metre earthen ring where a shallow ditch still cuts the grass. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the truth about who lived there vanished before maps existed. The fairies may have simply inherited the ambiguity, claiming what humans forgot.

In pasture 110m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Clogher East and 140m N of townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. Holy Well (LI039-077----) lies 380m to E small quarry or gravel pit 30m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 24m) defined by a scarp and fosse (Wth 5m) from SW-N-SE . The fosse opens out at SW (Wth 18m) where it may have been levelled. The enclosing fosse is intersected at NE by a field boundary that curves from NW-SE. Visible as a scrub-covered monument on aerial photograph (ASIAP (328) 15) taken 05/10/2002 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 346/22, 23 on 05/01/2003

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