What is recorded here
Drumrat holds a substantial earthen ringfort where a wide eastern break still marks the entrance. The bank encloses a circular space large enough for human life, yet local memory may have surrendered it to fairy speculation.
Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 24m) enclosed by a substantial, although partly denuded, earthen bank and the remains of a fosse identifiable only from E-SSE and at N. Wide break in bank at ENE presumably represents 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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