What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed by legend, and Rathmore is one of them: a circular grass-covered enclosure about thirty-five to forty metres across on the lower SE-facing slope of a NW-SE spur in County Monaghan. Its low bank and fosse have partly become a curved field bank running NNW-NE, so the fort now looks less like a fortress than like a boundary forgotten by farming. The 1834 map still called it a fort in gothic lettering, while the 1907 map reduced it to a curved field bank, which is often what happens when a place stops being understood and starts being measured.

Situated on the lower SE-facing slope of the spine of a NW-SE spur. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’ on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curved field bank SW-N-E on the 1907 edition. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 35-40m) defined by traces of a low bank and fosse, with the bank incorporated into a curved field bank NNW-NE (Chord c. 25m). 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: 6 December 2017

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