What is recorded here

Mortars and machines have bitten through the fort, but it still stands as a circular ridge above the ordinary field. A fairytale name belongs to the place now, yet the stone and soil mark a human residence older than memory. What remains is enough to show that people shaped this land before Whitestown existed. The lost chamber may have held a family, a herdsman or a priest, and the earth still carries the shape of that forgotten life.

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 Circular raised platform (int. diam. 27m, H 1.6-2.4m). No visible fosse or ancient entrance. The interior of the site is badly affected by quarrying.

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