What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Rassan, County Cavan: a raised circular area, about twenty-nine metres across, enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and traces of a fosse. Farmers later levelled parts of the bank and ditch from the northeast through the east to the south-southeast, and the original entrance no longer shows. What remains is a smooth, patient ring on the land, the kind of place where people may have lived, hidden, or simply walked past with their hands full.

Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 29m) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and traces of a fosse. Both fosse and bank have been levelled from NE-E-SSE. Original entrance not recognisable. 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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