
What is recorded here
Indicated is a grass-covered fairy fort on a Meath hill, its thirty-metre circle marked by a thin earthen bank and shallow fosse. A smaller seven-metre depression sits beside the main ring, possibly the ruined chamber of an underground passage. The field bank now cuts through the middle, hiding the original entrance and leaving the fort divided like a forgotten room.
Situated on top of a hill. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 30m NNE-SSW; 27m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (at NNE: Wth of base 5.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) W-N-E, and by a fosse (at SSW: Wth of top 7m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.2m) S-WNW. The monument is divided into two by an E-W field bank, but the original entrance is not identified. Just S of the field bank is a circular depression (diam. 7m N-S; 6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 2.8m; H 0.3-0.4m), which is probably the remains of a Man-made underground passage with a beehive chamber reported by Beryl Moore (Rynne and Prendergast 1962, 43).
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: 28 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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