What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Bunlahy, County Longford: a 53 m circular rath on a north-west facing shelf, with earth-and-stone bank, scarp, fosse and outer bank, partly levelled by a modern field boundary. The entrance has vanished, but the ring still holds its shape in grass and stone. People may have lived there, feared there, or simply passed around it; the land kept the circle either way.

On a shelf of level ground on a NW-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 53m) enclosed from NE–ENE–E by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2m; H 0.3-0.5m) and from E-S-NE by a scarp (H 1.55-1.9m). An intervening fosse (Wth 5.8-6.6m; D 1-1.15m) and an outer bank (Wth 4.2m; H 1.1m) are also evident. The fosse and outer bank have been levelled from ENE–E-ESE due to the construction of a modern N–S field boundary. The outer bank is also levelled from NNW–N–ENE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 November 2011

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