What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Moor, County Longford: a low E-W ridge in pasture still carries a broad shallow ring, about twenty-two metres across, mapped as a Fort in 1837. The name does more work than the earth: fairy suggests exclusion, mystery, a place kept clear because people believed it belonged elsewhere. A ringfort may have stood there first, then lost its walls, meaning and shape until local wonder filled the gap.

On a low E-W ridge in pasture. Depicted as a subcircular, tree-planted enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. All that survives is a low, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (diam. c. 22m; H 0.8-0.9m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a shallow external fosse; it is no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 November 2011

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