White Fort, fairy fort in County Monaghan

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What is recorded here

Located on a slight shelf just off the crest of an ENE-WSW ridge on the SE side in an area known as ‘White Rath’. A circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible now in pasture, but slight traces of a fosse were detectable in 1942 (SMR file).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO012-008

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