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Fairy fort / ringfort in Drumgora (castlerahan By.)

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Drumgora holds a broken ringfort where modern fields cut through ancient earth. The larger eastern portion has been levelled, leaving only a steep western scarp to mark the original shape. What was lost may have been a home, a boundary, or a warning, but the remaining ridge still resists forgetting.
The site is divided into two unequal portions by a modern field boundary running NNW-SSE, flanked by a modern laneway on its W side. The larger portion, NE of this, has been levelled. The surviving portion is defined by a partially defaced steep scarp from S-NW. 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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