What is recorded here

Kilcroney holds a broad oval fort, twenty-five metres across, where a shallow dip at the south-east edge marks the entrance used when people still lived there. The earth rises two metres high around a hidden interior passage, suggesting the fort was built to confuse as much as to keep out. Local tradition calls it a fairy fort, which may simply mean the true owners vanished so completely that the house belongs to imagination now.

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 Raised oval area (max. dims. 25.5m by 17.5m, H 1.4-2.5m) with depression at SE edge of platform indicating probable ancient entrance. Possible Man-made underground passage (LH011-092002-) in the interior.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.