What is recorded here

Mud and memory still hold the shape of Agharah, a D-shaped ringfort thirty-two metres across where a broken southern bank once admitted people now lost to time. The fairies may have taken the names, but the earth kept the boundary, the fosse kept the shadow, and the field edge has only partially strangled the entrance. What is missing is not the same as never having existed.

Raised D-shaped area (int. diam. 32m N-S; L of straight side 30m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and the remains of a fosse. Break in bank at SE, now partially blocked by a modern field boundary, may represent original entrance. 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 or earthen ringfort in Agharah is a likely early-medieval defensive or domestic site, indicated by its D-shaped enclosure, earthen bank, and fosse. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, often considering them portals to the Otherworld or the homes of supernatural beings.

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