What is recorded here
No visible entrance, no clear marker, no story attached. The fort is a circle of earth and shadow, complete in shape but closed to memory. What is missing is the life that formed it: the hands that raised the bank, the doors that opened it, the years it stood before becoming a quiet line in the field.
Raised circular area (int. diam. 41m E-W) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse identifiable only from WNW-N-NE. Bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary. Original entrance not recognisable. Internal area is divided into two unequal portions by a modern field boundary running NW-SE.
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
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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