What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide in plain sight because people still drop marbles, toys and coins into them, feeding the trickery that keeps their edges soft. In Mullagha the fort wears that disguise openly: a level grass dish between rising hills, wide enough to swallow a child or a memory, with water streams running past like watchers. Its moats are shallow but certain, marking the boundary between the ordinary field and the place where lost things go to be kept.

Located on a level landscape with the headwaters of W-E streams just to the N and S and hills rising over it to the N and S. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) is faintly depicted on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is annotated as a defaced ‘Fort’. This is a D-shaped or subrectangular grass-covered area (dims 53m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by grass-covered fosses or moats (Wth of top 5.6m at S to 9m at N; int. D 1-1.2m; ext. D 0.3m at W to 1.6m at N). There is an entrance (Wth 4.4m) at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 July 2007 Revisied: 24 March 2023

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