What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Dungonnan, County Cavan. A ringfort, perhaps 30 metres across, with a low earthen bank and trench. People lived there, maybe farmed, maybe kept fire through winter. Levelled now. Only a kink in the field boundary remains, marking the place where the fort disappeared.

A kink in the field boundary running from SE-S-SW is the only surviving indicator of the site. An earlier report (OPW 1968) described a raised subcircular area (int. dims. c. 30m E-W; c. 27m N-S) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a modern trench. Original entrance location was not identified. Site has been levelled. 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 Dungonnan, likely dating to the early medieval period, is indicated by a kink in a field boundary and a former description of a subcircular raised enclosure. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy activity, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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