What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished fairy fort at the south-east end of a long Cavan drumlin, erased before modern cameras but still named on nineteenth-century maps. The ridge may have hosted a human ringfort, a boundary marker, or a childhood legend about spirits dwelling beneath ordinary soil. Forgetting the fort does not undo the shape of the land; it only removes one of its names.

Marked 'Fort' on OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated at the SSE end of a long, broad drumlin ridge orientated NNW-SSE. Site has been levelled. 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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