Drummur Fort

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. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Drummur Fort is a ringfort situated on a drumlin hill, featuring a circular enclosure with two earthen banks and a waterlogged interior, typical of early-medieval agricultural or defensive sites. Local tradition associates such forts with fairy dwellings, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.