What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew from Cabragh. That is a shape for people who refuse to see the hole, the bank, the causeway or the river below the hill. The measureable fort still stands at the south end of the ridge, forty metres across, with a broken ditch and a lane pretending to be one of its walls. It is not a mystery about the end of sight. It is a place where the earth was cut, shaped and remembered.

Situated at the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge with a NE-SW section of the Annalee River c. 350m to the S. This is a raised, circular and overgrown area (diam. 40m NNE-SSW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6.3-6.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 3.1m), and an outer flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 8.5-9m; Wth of base 2.7-3.5m; ext. D 0.4m at NNE to 1.5m at SSW) that only survives S-W-NE. The fosse is surrounded by the bank of a farm lane S-W, which increases its apparent depth in this area. The entrance through the bank (Wth of base 1.8m) and causeway (Wth of top 5.8m; H 1.5m) were recorded at SE in 1969 (SMR file) but these features are now more amorphous. This is a National Monument in state ownership, No. 585. 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. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 27 July 2018

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