Michael Moore, fairy fort in County Monaghan

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Situated towards the SE end of a NW-SE drumlin ridge. This rath is depicted on McCrea’s Map of the county of Monaghan (1793) and on the 1834 and 1907 editions of the OS 6-inch map. It is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 32.4m NW-SE; 29.8m NE-SW) defined by earthen bank (at NE: Wth of base 5.2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.8m) with some bushes but no visible trace of a fosse. A field bank is built against the base of this scarp all around. There are several gaps through bank but the original entrance is not identifiable. Running SSW from the centre is a depression (dims 11.6m NNE-SSW; 5.7m WNW-ESE; max. D 1.35m) with a spur (dims WNW-ESE 4.3m; 4.4m NNE-SSW; max. D 0.8m) off its W side. This could be a destroyed Man-made underground passage, although there is no evidence of stone. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 22 June 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO019-009

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Brian Lenehan, commons.wikimedia.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Brian Lenehan, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Fintan McTiernan; published by Monaghan GAA, www.flickr.com
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, www.myhighlands.de
Maker not stated on source page, irishheritagenews.ie
Fintan McTiernan / Monaghan GAA official Flickr, www.flickr.com

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