What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not evidence of fairies. They are ordinary human places misnamed because people stopped understanding them. In Corrawillin, a raised circular area thirty-three to thirty-seven metres across still stands inside an earthen bank and ditch, with a possible entrance at the south-east. That is all the claim needs. A household, a boundary, a defence or a marker of status may have occupied it. The forgotten identity of its people does not weaken the fact that the place existed.

Raised circular area (int. dims. 33m E-W; 37.4m N-S) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse which is visible from SW-W-N and at NE and SE. Break in bank at SSE may represent original entrance. 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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