What is recorded here

Kilmore is called a fairy fort because people believed fairies lived there. The earth ring stood on a steep ridge and marked the land long before modern fields. It was levelled in the early 1980s during land-reclamation works. The name still preserves the old idea that the place belonged to something unseen.

To the NE, below the summit, of a prominent, steep-sided NW-SE ridge. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 and 1883 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised subcircular area (c. 28m E-W; c. 25.5m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with slight traces of an external fosse. The original entrance was probably at S. The rath was levelled in the early 1980s during land-reclamation works (local information). Visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 December 2012

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