What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Drumasladdy is a raised oval enclosure, forty to forty-five metres across, bounded by a low earthen bank now hidden beneath thick vegetation and shadowed deciduous trees. Its southern entrance, recorded in an earlier survey, has likely been erased by time and growth, leaving the ring to reveal itself only through the shape of the ground beneath the leaves. The name suggests people once saw the fort as a threshold between the human world and the unseen, a place where the ordinary edge of the field became thin.

Raised oval area (int. dims. 45.3m NNW-SSE; 40.5m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a low earthen bank. Modern field drains have been dug at the external foot of the bank. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded that the original entrance was at S. The site is situated within a plantation of deciduous trees and is extremely overgrown with vegetation. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumasladdy is a likely early-medieval defensive or domestic site, characterized by a raised oval enclosure with a low earthen bank. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folklore, and they were often considered places of supernatural significance in Irish tradition.

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