What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there, though people believed it. Cleenrah is a true ringfort on a steep drumlin slope in County Longford: a circular space about thirty-eight metres across, enclosed by a broad earth-and-stone bank and shadowed by the buried ditch at its foot. The entrance has vanished under scrub and time, but the shape still insists on being a home, a trap, or a chamber where someone learned the difference between living and being forgotten.

On a steep NE-facing slope of a drumlin. A raised circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.4-7.3m; H 0.6-1.55m). At its external base is a wide low berm (Wth 5-6m), which presumably marks the outline of an infilled fosse that was noted in 1990 (SMR file), along with the possible original entrance at E. The latter feature is no longer identifiable. The rath is overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 November 2011

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cleenrah is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local folklore associates such sites with the faé or supernatural beings, and they were often avoided or revered by rural communities.

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