What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed because people stopped remembering they were human. This is one of them: a circular earthwork in Plush, County Cavan, now split by a field boundary and half-levelled, with only a low bank and faint ditch left for anyone clever enough to look twice. The fairies got the credit because wonder grows faster on forgotten things than on recorded ones.

Not marked on any OS ed. Raised circular area(int. diam. c. 32m) enclosed by fragmentary remains of a low earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. The site is divided into two roughly equal portions by a field boundary running NW-SE, the NE portion of which has been levelled leaving only the outline identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. Densely overgrown with vegetation. 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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