What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Tulach Chonóg, County Meath: a grass-covered circular ridge, 52m across, with a steep inner scarp and shallow outer ditch, but no visible entrance. It stands on a north-west slope like a room without a door, inviting imagination rather than certainty. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped there before written records; the earth keeps its shape while human names fade.
Situated on a NW-facing slope. This is a raised circular and grass-covered area (diam. 52m NE-SW; 49m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (at SE: Wth 3.5m; H 1.6m; at NW: Wth 20m; H 3.5m), with a fosse (at SE: Wth of top 8m; Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 0.7m) ENE-SSW. There is no identifiable original entrance and it is slightly truncated at SW by a NW-SE field bank.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 17 April 2019
Amended: 24 March 2023
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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