What is recorded here

Rosskeeragh holds a twenty-one-metre circular scar where human hands raised an earthen bank before ploughs and forgetting smoothed it into the Cavan soil. The field boundary still cuts the ghost in two, and a possible hut crouches twenty metres north-west, suggesting someone lived beside rather than inside the fort. Fairy fort is the name people gave what they could no longer explain: a shape without an entrance, a room without a roof, a circle that refused to disappear.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 21.6m) enclosed by a low much-denuded earthen bank and vague traces of a fosse. The site is divided into equal portions by a field boundary running WNW-ESE. Although site has been levelled to SSW, its outline is still identifiable. Original entrance not recognisable. A possible hut site lies c. 20m NW of rath (CV015-069002-) 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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