What is recorded here

Forthenry holds a broken rectangular cage forty-seven metres long where human hands built an earthen wall before field boundaries cut through its southern memory. The northern bank still stands while the southern edge has vanished into soil and ownership, erasing the entrance that once admitted life. What remains is not a complete fortress but a temporal wound: a place where human intention emerged, dominated the landscape, and retreated so far that only measurement and absence testify to its existence.

An earlier report (OPW 1968) described a subrectangular area (int. dims. 47m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank from NW-N-SE and elsewhere by a scarp with slight remains of an earthen bank on its upper edge in places. At that time, much of the S half of the site had already been disturbed by field boundaries. Original entrance not recognisable. Not visible at ground level. 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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