What is recorded here

Mortons and others still call it a fairy fort, but it is an earthen ringfort: a raised circular area about 35 metres across, enclosed by a substantial bank and shallow fosse, with its original entrance at the southeast. In Birragh it remains a compact place of ownership, exclusion and memory, where the boundary is still visible even if the hands that shaped it have disappeared.

Raised circular area (int. diam c. 35m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a shallow fosse. Original entrance at SE. 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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