What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Richardstown: a circular earthwork with a wide ditch, about forty-five metres across, set on a north-facing slope in the River Dee valley near Ardee. People called it a fairy fort because such rings often felt like the edge of another world, where human life and story life both had room. A boy named Finn first saw the shape, and his father Anthony Murphy told others, bringing the forgotten circle back into local memory.

Situated towards the bottom of a N-facing slope in the valley of the W-E River Dee, a S-bound loop of which is c. 400m to the NNW. The cropmark of a circular area (int. diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 3-5m) is visible on Google Earth (27/06/2019). It is also visible on OSI images (2000), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy, having been discovered by his son, Finn. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 November 2019

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