What is recorded here

Marianne and the fairies fought for the fort. She threw dirt at them, they threw dirt back, and the oval shape emerged from the chaos. Cavan soil still remembers that argument because human anger and fairy pride both refused to leave the glebe.

Raised roughly oval area (int. dims. 44.5m N-S; 39.6m E-W) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse, slight traces of which are visible at NE and which has been replaced by a modern trench from ENE-SSE. Break in bank at SSE 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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