What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Ardue, County Cavan: a raised D-shaped ringfort, about 72m by 53m inside, bounded by earthen bank, shallow fosse and Tomkinroad Lough. People called it a fairy fort because such places looked less like homes and more like traps, beautiful but unwilling to be understood.
Raised D-shaped area (int. dims. c. 72m NW-SSE; c. 53m ENE-WSW) enclosed from SE-W-NNE by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse, and elsewhere by Tomkinroad Lough. Traces of a possible counterscarp bank at the external lip of the fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1974) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SSW. Densely overgrown with vegetation.
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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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