What is recorded here

Tonyhallagh holds a thirty-eight-metre circular scar where two low earthen banks still curve around a missing life. The western gap remains open, not broken, as if the fort never learned to close against the dark. People may have lived there before forgetting the shape of their own houses, leaving only a round shadow in the Cavan soil.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 38.4m) enclosed by two low earthen banks with poorly defined shallow outer fosses. External fosse and bank are absent from WNW-N-ENE. Corresponding breaks in banks at WSW represent original entrance. 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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