What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Moy, County Monaghan, is a circular earthen ringfort with an inner bank, berm, outer bank and NNE entrance on a slight ridge between drumlins. People may have lived, kept animals or marked territory there before the land was divided into fields. The field bank at the south now cuts through the older shape, but the double rings and entrance still show that this was a made place, not a casual heap of soil.

Situated on a slight NNW-SSE ridge with rock outcrop in a relatively low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. c. 33m NNE-SSW; c. 31m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (at NNW: Wth of base 2.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.9m) with some bushes SW-NNE that is reduced to a scarp NNE-SE. This is separated by a berm (at NNW: Wth 3.2m) from an outer bank (at NNW: Wth of base 2.7m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1m) and hedge SW-N that morphs into a ledge N-SE. There is an entrance through the inner (Wth of base 4.8m) and outer (Wth of base 2.9m) banks at NNE. The monument is truncated by an E-W field bank at S and the defining features are not visible S of this. 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: 22 June 2018

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