What is recorded here

Stonylane holds a thirty-metre circular fort on a natural rise, its earthen bank still standing two metres high on three sides. The west side has flattened to a barely visible lip, yet the shape remains clear enough to walk inside and measure against your own shadow. Local people called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the boundary between human memory and forgotten life blunts at that exact spot.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Situated on top of a small natural rise. Circular area (int. diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank from SE-S-W. Bank survives as scarp (H 2m) on other sides, except on W where it rises 0.3m above the interior.

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