What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Screeboge: a 32m earthen ring on a SE-facing pasture slope in County Longford. Its bank survives mainly from west through north to east, while elsewhere the edge has been taken into field boundaries; a drain circles the top, likely following the old outer ditch. The entrance has disappeared under grass and boundary work, but the shape still reads as a made place: round, raised, set apart. People may have lived there, excluded others, or simply marked the land as theirs before memory thinned.
On a SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined from WNW-N-ENE by a scarp/bank (H 0.35m). Elsewhere the enclosing element has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. A field drain (D c. 1.5m) surrounds the monument; it was probably dug along the line of an external fosse. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 18 January 2012
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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