What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Derrycassan, County Cavan: a raised circular area, 24.8 metres across inside a low earthen bank, with a possible outer ditch and a southern entrance. It is the kind of place where people may have lived, hidden or worshipped before written memory, while later listeners called it a fairy fort because the shape still seemed occupied. Walk its edge at dusk and ask what it kept, not whether it is real.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 24.8m) enclosed by a low earthen bank. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded traces of an outer fosse and suggested that the original entrance may have been at S. 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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