What is recorded here

Yes. A clear D-shaped ringfort in County Louth, with a peat-covered bank, narrow southeast entrance, internal dividing bank and conjoined circular hut platforms, still shows the shape of a small defended home. It may have been a farmstead, a refuge or a boundary marker for a local family, while the fairy-fort name suggests it also became a place people avoided or revered.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 D-shaped area (int. dims. 29m NE-SW, 23m NW-SE) enclosed by peat-covered bank (Wth 4m, H 0.5m internally, 0.8m externally) with traces of internal and external stone facing. Entrance gap (Wth 1.5m) at SE, with remains of possible lean-to structure abutting inner face of bank at E. Interior divided in two by low peat-covered bank running NW-SE. On N side of dividing bank are conjoined circular hut platforms (LH005-035002-).

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