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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cullentragh (upper Loughtee By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Cullentragh, upper Loughtee By., County Cavan, Ireland: a raised circular area, 33.5m WNW-ESE and 31m NNE-SSW inside, enclosed by a substantial earthen bank with traces of a fosse. Half the bank has been taken into the field boundary or levelled to barely half a metre above the ground, and the entrance has disappeared altogether. What remains is a shallow bowl in the landscape, large enough to hold a house, a herd, a hunt or a hundred years of forgetting.
Raised circular area (int. dims. 33.5m WNW-ESE; 31m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and traces of a fosse. From W-N-SSE bank has been modified and incorporated into the field boundary. From SSE-S-W it has been levelled to only 0.5m above external ground level. Original entrance not recognisable. 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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