What is recorded here

An invisible hand drew the circle, perhaps a bedroom for the fairies or a kitchen where they baked bread for the living. People walked past the lane and never entered the fort because they knew the rules of the place. The fairies owned the circle and the living owned the road beside it.

Not marked on any OS ed. Known locally as the site of a 'fairy fort' (local information). All that survives to indicate the possible presence of an enclosure here is a raised circular platform (diam. c. 25m) demarcated by the curve of a now disused laneway from SE-S-NW. The inner face of the laneway is bordered by a low narrow bank of earth and stone. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killeter, likely dating to the early medieval period, is represented by a circular raised platform of about 25 metres in diameter. Local tradition refers to the site as a 'fairy fort,' reflecting the common Irish association of such mounds with supernatural or otherworldly beings.

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