What is recorded here

Mounds and hollows mark Clonkeiffy, where a broken earth bank still faces southeast and a faint causeway leads across the hollow. The circle measures twenty-six metres, large enough for houses, herds or argument, yet no name has survived to say which. Fairy fort is the local label, but the shape is human: a boundary drawn in soil, with an entrance made for coming and going.

Raised circular area (int. dims. 26.2m E-W; 24.7m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. Break in bank at SE with remains of accompanying causeway represents original entrance. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded a small, low, subrectangular platform of unknown significance adjacent to the inner face of bank at WSW. 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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