What is recorded here

Corraleehanbeg holds a thirty-metre circular home where humans shaped earth into a defensible ring before conifers swallowed the memory. The northeast gap remains the only entrance, cutting through a bank now softened by centuries of rain and forgetting. Fairy fort is the local name for this human making, a reminder that imagination often arrives later to decorate what pragmatism first built.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 30m) enclosed by a much-denuded earthen bank and slight remains of a fosse. Break in bank at NE represents original entrance. Planted with coniferous trees in 1988. 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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