What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Burren is a large earthen ring, about fifty metres across, with a deep waterlogged ditch and no visible entrance. It is the kind of place people named for fairies because it refused to explain itself like an ordinary farmyard or fortress. The missing entrance and buried ditch suggest a boundary drawn in earth rather than stone, perhaps marking a house, a shrine or a warning.

Raised circular area (int. dims. 50m WNW-ESE; 48.3m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep, partly waterlogged fosse. From WNW-E-SSW the fosse has been infilled and survives only as a slight depression. Original entrance not recognisable. 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 the Burren, likely dating to the early medieval period, is characterized by a raised circular area enclosed by a bank and fosse. Local folklore associates such sites with the supernatural, often referring to them as dwellings of the fairies or ancient spirits.

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