What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished fairy fort in County Monaghan, Ireland, where a forty-five-metre circular embankment once rose above the undulating pasture. The 1834 map captured its gothic fort label before centuries of farming erased most of the ring, leaving only a faint curving field bank to mark its ghost. The land still remembers the shape even when the grass hides it from human eyes.

Situated on a local height in an undulating landscape. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) is depicted on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and it is represented as a curve of field bank (Chord c. 40m) SW-NW on the 1907 edition. The curving field bank is extant SW-NW but no archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture. 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: 9 May 2018

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