Drummur Fort, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Cavan

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What is recorded here

Situated a short distance from the summit of a drumlin hill. An earlier report (OPW 1969) described a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with wide, deep, waterlogged intervening fosse. Original entrance may have been at NE. Levelled in the early 1960s leaving nothing visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV017-033

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