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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost fairy fort at the top of a Monaghan drumlin, reduced to a faint twenty-metre curve in a field boundary. It may have been a human ringfort, a marker for the fairies, or simply a ridge line misread by men who believed they understood land. The hills keep their own records and withdraw them when they choose.
Located at the highest point at the S end of a NNE-SSW drumlin ridge. A curved field boundary describing a U-shape E-S-W (diam. c. 20m E-W) at the S angle of a triangular haggard that is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map may be the remnant of an ancient enclosure. No ancient or modern features survive. Date of upload: 14 April 2011

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Recorded monument

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