Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clonmagaddan, County Meath

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Situated on top of a hillock in an undulating landscape. This is depicted as an oval copse (dims c. 75m E-W; c. 50m N-S) annotated ‘Fort’ on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a subrectangular field (dims 50m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on the 1908 edition. It is described in 1969 (SMR file) as a circular grass-covered and slightly domed area with some tree-stumps (diam. 42m NE-SW; 40m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank but there is no evidence of an outer fosse. There is a slight inner bank W-NNW and the bank is fairly straight on the N side. There are gaps in the bank at ENE, SSW and WSW but the original entrance is not identified. The rath is surrounded by modern field banks. Archaeological monitoring (00E0058) by A. Wallace of works connected with the construction of houses immediately to the E produced no related material (excavations.ie 2000:766), although some worked flints had been recovered from the ploughed field.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME025-014

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