What is recorded here

Carnagh Upper holds a thirty-metre earthen ring where a missing eastern entrance faces the rising sun. A large flat stone still lies inside the southern edge, perhaps marking a hearth or warning keepers that the soil belongs elsewhere. Cavan farms have swallowed part of the bank into field boundaries, yet the circle remains clear enough to invite wonder about the people who shaped it or the fairies who refused to leave it alone.

Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 30m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank. An earlier report (OPW 1970) noted traces of a fosse from N-E-S. From SW-W-N the outer face of the bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary and has a modern external trench. Break in bank at E presumably represents original entrance. A large flat stone (H 0.5m; dims, 1m x 1m) lies in the interior at S. 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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