What is recorded here

Half-hidden beneath grass and scrub on a drumlin crest above Emy Lough, the fort keeps its shape because water still fills the ditch outside its earthen wall. People may have stood at the southern causeway to watch the lake or keep something back from the land, while later listeners called it a fairy fort and left it alone. The boundary between human memory and fairy story becomes hard to judge when the place still behaves like a living limit.

Located at the crest of the E-facing slope of a drumlin and overlooking the N arm (dims c. 500m NE-SW; c. 150m NW-SE) of the rectangular (dims 700m N-S; c. 600m E-W) Emy Lough, which is c. 260m to the SE. This is a circular grass and scrub-covered area (int. diam. c. 34m NE-SW; 34.5m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H c. 2m) and an outer waterlogged fosse (at S: Wth of top 3m), which in turn is surrounded by a field bank. The entrance (Wth of base 3.7m) and causeway (Wth of top c. 2m) is at S. 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. Date of revision: 25 July 2017

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