What is recorded here

Kilnaglare Upper holds a thirty-one-metre earthen ring where a shallow bank and deep fosse still mark the boundary between the living field and the hidden world. Its southeast causeway invites entry, but the surrounding ditch warns that invitation and danger share one shape. People may have lived there before fear renamed the place, yet the fort endures as a threshold where ordinary land admits another kind of claim.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 31.4m) enclosed by a low earthen bank and a wide, deep fosse outside of which is a well-defined counterscarp bank running from SW-NW. Break in bank with accompanying causeway at SE 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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