What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Cavan, Ireland, where a raised circular area measures thirty point nine metres across inside a stone rampart once four point three metres thick. The wall still stands at the base of a modern field boundary, and a smaller rectangular drystone chamber presses against its southwest side like a hidden room. Richardson believed the true entrance faced south, marking the place as a lived-in threshold rather than a dead ruin.

Raised circular area (int. diam. 30.9m) enclosed by the base of a stone rampart (original Wth 4.3m) which has been largely modernised and incorporated into the field boundary. A rectangular area (int. dims. 6.35m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE) enclosed by a drystone wall adjoins the cashel wall at SW and is accompanied by an indentation in the cashel wall itself at this point. Richardson (1938, 19) suggested that the original entrance was at S 'where one of the facing stones of the jamb survives'. 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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