What is recorded here

Glasdrumman holds a twenty-eight metre circular fort where an earthen bank and shallow ditch still mark the boundary between human history and fairy speculation. The northern earthwork remains clear while field walls have chewed the rest, yet a causeway at the northeast break suggests people once entered with purpose rather than hesitation. Perhaps residents built the fort to keep out invaders or to keep out something older, because local minds still call such rings fairy forts when human memory fades.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 28.6m) enclosed by an earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse, best preserved at N and much disturbed by field walls elsewhere. Break in bank with remains of causeway at NE may represent 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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