What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished fairy fort in County Meath, mapping a D-shaped enclosure beside a building in 1836 but reducing to a fifteen-metre oblong bank by modern aerial view. The ridge may have worn smooth under pasture and rain, or the fort may have withdrawn from human sight after losing its name. What remains is a low ridge and a hint of bank, enough to suggest that the land still remembers the shape even when the surface no longer shows it.

Situated on a low NNW-SSE ridge. It is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure (dims c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) backing onto a NE-SW building at SE on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Fort’, and it is depicted as a tear-shaped enclosure on the 1908 edition. No archaeological feature is visible on any aerial images in pasture, apart from an oblong bank (L c. 15m NE-SW) at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 3 September 2018

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