What is recorded here

Indicated was a D-shaped fort on a level plain in County Meath, large enough to hold a quiet village or a small army, but the centre opened like a wound toward the road. People may have lived there, loved there, argued over doorways and forgotten the name of the fort before the quarry took it. By 1969 the earth had been removed, leaving only the memory of a shape that once stood beside the road.

Situated on a fairly level landscape. This feature is depicted as a D-shaped area (dims c. 50m NW-SE; c. 45m NE-SW) backing onto a NW-SE roadway at SW on the 1836 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a ‘Fort’. It is depicted as having a D-shaped pit or quarry (dims c. 35m NW-SE; c. 25m NE-SW) in the centre that is open to the road. It had been completely quarried away by 1969 (SMR file). Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 31 October 2013 Amended: 5 July 2019

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