What is recorded here

Half-buried in wet marsh, the stone-chip ring stands on a rocky ridge like a drowned kitchen table. Davies imagined a vanished lake completing its circle, suggesting the fort once watched water instead of mud. That missing half may still breathe beneath the bog, waiting for the rain to return it.

On a broad rocky ridge in otherwise low-lying wet marshy land. Davies (ITA Survey 1940) describes it as a roughly circular area (diam. c. 22.85m) enclosed by a semicircular portion of bank composed mainly of small chips of stone with a less extensive fosse. He speculated that this was a waterside type rath, one side of which is bounded by bog probably representing an extinct lake. Not located. 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 Marahill, likely dating to the early medieval period, is situated on a rocky ridge amid wet, low-lying terrain. Local folklore, common to many such sites in Ireland, associates it with fairies or other supernatural beings, though specific traditions are not recorded.

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