What is recorded here

Marianne and the children stood inside the Glascarrick ring, thirty-four metres of ancient earth pressing around them like a forgotten chamber. Under the low sky, the fort stopped sounding like a ruined idea and began sounding like a living address. She touched the warm bank, not in fear but in recognition, as if distance had finally collapsed and the old world had answered her call.

Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 34m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and some suggestion of a fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1970) proposed 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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