Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dunoge, County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located towards the top of the SW-facing slope of the shoulder of a drumlin. It is depicted as an embanked enclosure describe as a ‘fort’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a curving field bank SE-W-N on the 1907 edition. A scarp (H 1m) and hedge survives SE-W-N (Chord c. 40m) but the rest of the perimeter cannot be traced. There is no visible fosse.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO031-025

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