What is recorded here

You want to know the truth about Gortin? Stop pretending history is a museum. A ringfort is a ringfort, but people call it a fairy fort because fairies never built anything visible. They hid inside the cracks of human making. The earthen bank still stands while human pride forgets. That is not mysticism. That is record.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 27.1m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank best preserved from N-E-SSW and denuded elsewhere, and a wide, partly waterlogged fosse which is deep from S-WNW and otherwise quite shallow. A modern laneway running NNW-SSE divides the rath into two approximately equal portions. Partly blocked break in bank at N 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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