What is recorded here

Mortals may have built the fort, but the fairies took it back. The ring of Garrycam sits on an east-facing slope in County Longford, a shallow circle of earth and stone about twenty-five metres across. No doorway remains visible, and the green has since closed over the whole place like a fist. What the fairies keep, they keep completely.

On the E-facing slope of a hill in pasture. Higher up the hill is an area of blanket bog. A report in 1977 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone. There was no trace of a fosse and the original entrance was not recognisable. A possible house site (LF019-067002-) was noted in the NW quadrant of the interior. When revisited in 1998 the rath was densely overgrown with vegetation rendering inspection impossible. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 20 June 2012

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