What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human inventions, often built by ordinary people and renamed later because they stood empty or strange. The fort in Moyne is different in one way: its shape is still clear, and the clear shape leaves less room for invention. The flat top, the bank, the broken entrance and the missing outer trace all still point to a real residence. Whether it belonged to farmers, warriors or forgotten neighbours cannot be known, but the ground has stopped pretending it does not remember.

At the highest point of a prominent drumlin in reclaimed pasture. A raised subcircular area (49.1 NW-SE; 42.4m NE-SW) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.2m; H 0.2-1.3m) with a partially rock-cut, waterlogged external fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.6m). The outer face of the bank has been steepened and the fosse has been narrowed and deepened. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded fragmentary traces of an outer bank, which are no longer identifiable. A laneway from WNW-N-E may overlie it. A break (Wth 2.9m) in the bank at E with an accompanying causeway may mark the original entrance. Another report in 1963 (SMR file) recorded 'faint suggestions of house foundations' (LF003-001002-). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

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