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Fairy fort in Enaghan, County Longford: a substantial earth and stone bank, 7.5m wide and 1.35m high, still encloses a roughly oval area on a drumlin ridge. The external fosse is visible only from northwest through east, while a six-metre break at the east-northeast probably marked the entrance. People may have lived there, excluded others, and disappeared into pasture; the ring remains large enough to keep wondering alive.

On top of a N-S drumlin ridge in pasture. A raised roughly oval area (34.5m E-W; 31.5m N-S) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.5m; H 1.35m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.5-3.5m; D 0.3m), which is identifiable only from NW-N-E. A break (Wth 6m) in the bank at ENE probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Enaghan is a likely early-medieval defensive or domestic site, characterized by a raised oval enclosure with a wide earth-and-stone bank and an external fosse. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, often considering them portals to the Otherworld or the homes of supernatural beings.

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