What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Shancobane stands on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin in County Monaghan, Ireland. Its double earthen banks and grassy interior mark an old rath where people may have lived, hid or worshipped before the fields swallowed the edges. The gap at east still points toward the land they faced, while the drumlin top holds another rath nearby, as if the hill itself remembered being inhabited.

Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of drumlin. This is an approximately circular grass and scrub-covered area (dims 33.4m E-W; 28.6m N-S) that slopes down to the E (H 2.8m) and is defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 2.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) separated by a fosse or berm (at SE: Wth 3.4m) from an outer earthen bank (at SE: Wth of base 5.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m) with bushes. The outer bank is incorporated into a field bank W-NW and there is a drain outside the outer bank S-W, but the inner bank tends to be reduced to an internal scarp (H 0.4m) W-N. There are several gaps through the banks, but the original entrance may have been at E (Wth 2.3m). Rath (MO031-022----) is on top of the drumlin c. 180m to the WNW. The following 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: 27 July 2017

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