What is recorded here

Cranavonane, County Carlow: a circular rath thirty metres across, ringed by an earthen bank and outer ditch, with four gaps and a probable eastern entrance. People may have lived there, farmed around it, or simply passed it on tongue and legend. The fairies, according to local story, took it for their own fort, leaving the humans with a hole in the ground and a warning not to dig.

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. 30m) surrounded by earthen bank with external fosse. Four gaps in bank; that at E is probably original entrance.

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cranavonane is a likely early-medieval agricultural settlement, typically dating between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local folklore often associates such sites with the supernatural, including tales of fairies or other otherworldly beings.

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