What is recorded here

Aghagolrick holds a broad earthen ring around a hollow space twenty-eight metres across, large enough for several households or a small herd. People may have lived there before farmers straightened part of the bank into a field edge, yet the circle still resists forgetting. Its name feeds that refusal, suggesting something hidden or uncanny inside the ordinary earth.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 28.1m) enclosed by an earthen bank. An earlier description (OPW1969) noted the presence of a wide, shallow, external fosse which has since been largely infilled or replaced by modern field drains. From NE-SSE the original curve of the bank has been straightened and incorporated into the field boundary. Original entrance may have been at NE. 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

A fairy fort in Aghagolrick is an earthen ringfort, likely dating to the early medieval period, characterized by a raised circular area with an internal diameter of 28.1 meters and a surrounding bank. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy activity, and they were often avoided to prevent supernatural encounters.

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