What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular fairy fort on a Monaghan drumlin, its earthen bank still defining a grassy dome twenty-seven metres across. Beech trees now crowd the interior, and the wood has swallowed the western entrance, leaving only a faint outer ditch to mark where the boundary once cut through open ground. The fort stands at the SE angle of the wood, close enough that Newbliss House may have looked across it before the trees closed the view.

Located at the summit of a drumlin and at the SE angle of a wood. This enclosure would have been within view of Newbliss House, c. 450m to the NW before a wood was established on the NW-facing slope of the hill before 1834 (OS map). This is a circular, grass-covered and domed area (diam. c. 27m) that is planted in beech trees. It is defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2-4m; int. H 0.5m; ex.t H 1.5m), which forms the boundary with Teer townland N-S-W, but the bank is barely present W-N within the wood. The bank survives best SE-W and there are slight traces of an outer fosse, which is particularly evident at SW. An original entrance is not identified. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018

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