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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumganus Upper

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated at the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is depicted as an embanked circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 40m) and described as a 'fort' in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curve in a field bank SE-W-NW on the 1907 edition. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m NW-SE) defined by the curving field bank and hedge SE-W –NW but a low bank (Wth c. 3m; H 0.25m) survives inside the line of the field bank W-N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO025-029

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  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Fintan McTiernan; published by Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • David Crozier, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.thejournal.ie
  • Eric Jones, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, za.pinterest.com
  • Fintan McTiernan, courtesy of Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
  • HENRY CLARK, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • DagosNavy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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