What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Graffoge, County Longford: a 35m earthen ring with a deep fosse, outer bank and an east-south-east entrance, standing on a low rise in pasture. The shallow inner depression recorded in 1975 still has no clear meaning, perhaps a trough, basin or forgotten make. People may have lived, herded or feasted there before the field took it back; the banks remain sharp enough to keep that possibility alive.

On a low rise in undulating pasture. A raised subcircular area ( 35m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3-5m; H 0.3-0.6m), an intervening fosse (Wth 5.7-5.8m; D 1.5m) and an outer bank (Wth 5.1-6m; H 0.9-1.6m). A break (Wth 4.5m) in the inner bank at ESE marks the original entrance. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a wide, shallow depression of unknown significance inside the bank at N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 12 January 2012

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