What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Garrysallagh, County Cavan: a broad shallow ring, seventy-five metres across, with a low earth bank and a narrow ditch mostly filled in. It is the kind of place people once shaped for housing, storage or ritual, and later half-forgot. Walk its edge at dusk and listen for the absent life that made it.

Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 75m) enclosed by a much-denuded low earthen bank and a narrow, shallow fosse. Short segment of low counterscarp bank at SW. Fosse has been largely infilled from WSW-N-SE. An earlier report (OPW 1970) suggested that the original entrance may have been at SE. 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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