What is recorded here

Indicated stands at the northwest tip of a long promontory entering Milltown Lough, a subrectangular fort cut from the mainland by a fragmentary scarp and shallow fosse. Its southern edge holds a sunken causeway, perhaps the original entrance, while a second rectangular enclosure waits thirty metres southeast. The water touched the stones before humans built roads, and the fort still points inward like a finger pressing against forgetfulness.

Depicted on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. as a large subrectangular enclosure at the NW end of a long, low promontory, jutting into Milltown Lough. Subrectangular area (int. dims c. 42m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) cut off from the mainland by fragmentary traces of a scarp with wide, shallow, external fosse (Wth c. 4m). Scarp is identifiable only from SE-S-SW. Davies (ITA Survey 1942) recorded 'a rather sunken causeway' at S which he believed probably represented the original entrance. A large rectangular enclosure lies c. 30m to SE (CV028-022----). 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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