What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts renamed through folklore, often because abandonment made them seem empty or dangerous. In Mullanafinnog the earthworks sit on a drumlin slope, with a bank, gaps and a recut fosse, suggesting the place was shaped, reused or altered rather than simply invented by legend. The fairy name may have come later, when people stopped knowing who lived there and gave the forgotten house to something else.

Located towards the bottom of the NW-facing slope of a SE-NW drumlin spine. This is an oval overgrown area (dims 36m WNW-ESE; 31.5m NNE-SSW) that slopes down to the N. It is defined by earthen bank SE-SW and at N, which is reduced to a scarp elsewhere, with an external fosse that had been recut E-SW. There are several gaps in the bank; that at NW might be original. 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. Date of revision: 25 July 2017

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