What is recorded here

Indicated is a D-shaped fairy fort on a south-facing Monaghan slope, its shallow bank and outer ditch still marking a boundary older than the house that once stood at its east edge. The perimeter trees sway above grass worn smooth by centuries of footsteps, while the missing entrance hints at a doorway hidden beneath soil and forgetting. What lives inside the ring now is not written, but the shape remains, waiting for someone to stop and listen for what it kept.

Located towards the top of a S-facing slope. This is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure with trees on the perimeter and a house at the straight E edge on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map and as a subcircular enclosure on the 1907 edition. It is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth c. 2m; ext. H c. 1m) with some trees SSE-W-NNE, and an outer fosse (at W: Wth of top 5m; Wth of base 3.5m; ext. D 0.4m) SW-N. The original entrance is not recognised but it may have been NNE-SSE where the perimeter was cut by an old N-S building, now removed. The small field to the N had been converted to a haggard by 2005 (OSAP). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 18 June 2018

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