What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed by later folklore. This one is a true circular enclosure on a Monaghan drumlin, with an earthen bank, scarp, hedge and a widened eastern entrance. It may have held a farmstead, a refuge or a small community, though no building remains visible. The fairy label is a story later people told because the shape still looked like a house they did not understand.

Located just off the crest of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 42m NNW-SSE; c. 44m E-W) that slopes down to the E, which is defined by an earthen bank incorporated into a road bank (at N: Wth of base 4m int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.9m) and hedge W-N and by a scarp (at SSE: Wth 2.6m; H 2.4m) and hedge elsewhere. There are slight indications of a fosse SW-W and there is a modernised entrance (Wth of base 3.8m) at ENE. 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 August 2017

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