What is recorded here

Mortons and ladders and rope and every tool of ascent failed on the smooth wall of the chamber. They raged until exhaustion took them, while the girl watched the depth of the chamber with patience. She touched only the place where the wall met the floor, and a hidden door opened into a staircase descending into the earth. The chamber was not a chamber at all, but the top of a shaft built to deceive the proud.

An almost circular raised area (int. diam. 37.6m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse. Modern field boundaries at the outer lip of the fosse from NNW-E-S. Break in bank at W with accompanying causeway represents original entrance. 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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