What is recorded here

Mortons and others still call it a fairy fort because the ground rises into a double-ringed oval, yet the clear banks and possible east-north-east entrance mark it as an old human ringfort. Trees now crowd the adapted interior, and a ruined six-sided stone summer-house lies among them, giving the place a domesticated, forgotten charm. People may have lived, hidden, played or feared there before they planted trees and built a small house inside the ancient line.

Raised oval area (int. dims. 46.8m NNW-SSE; 41.4m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a slight outer earthen bank, intermediate fosse and substantial inner earthen bank. Original entrance may have been at ENE. Adapted for use as a tree-ring in modern times. An earthen bank with a shallow outer trench is built against the external face of the outer bank. In the interior, a small six-sided stone building, now in ruins, is most likely the remains of a summer-house. Both these features are almost certainly modern. 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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