What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Aghagreagh, County Longford: a 30 m earthen ring on a pasture knoll, its low bank and faint fosse still marking the edge of an older residence. The entrance has disappeared under grass and memory, yet the circle remains clear enough to walk around and imagine inside. People may have lived there, herded there, hidden there or simply avoided the place because the fairies were said to keep it.

On a knoll in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth c. 4m; H 0.3-0.75m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.1-0.3m), which is identifiable only from NE-E-S. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Aghagreagh is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with the faé or supernatural beings, and they were often avoided or revered in Irish folklore.

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