What is recorded here

Thirty-one metres of packed earth still stand in Gortnacleigh, a rounded chamber waiting for the person who last left a lantern burning inside. The ne entrance wears a shallow causeway, as if the fort still expects visitors rather than guarding them from everyone. Local people call it a fairy fort, which means the boundary between human memory and fairy time has never fully closed.

Raised circular area (int. dims. 31.2m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a fosse. An earlier report (OPW 1969) recorded slight traces of an external bank at NW, ESE and SE. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at NE probably represents 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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