What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Aghagreagh, gelshagh is a broken earthen ring on a level shelf below a SW-facing slope in County Longford. Its wide low banks, shallow fosse and outer ridge still mark a circle nearly thirty metres across, though grass and time have softened most of the line. A blocked gap at the north may have been the entrance, suggesting the ring was made to be entered, not merely admired. People may have lived, hidden or gathered there before the stones became a fairy name.

On a shelf of level ground at the base of a SW-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 29m) enclosed by a partially denuded, wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2-7.8m; H 0.55-1.15m) with a wide, shallow, intervening fosse (Wth 6.7-7.2m; D 0.1-0.6m), which is identifiable only from W–N–SE, and an outer bank (Wth 6-7.2m; H 0.6-1.5) from W–WNW and at SE. A report in 1978 (SMR file) speculated that a blocked-up break in the inner bank at N with an accompanying causeway across the fosse may have represented the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

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