What is recorded here

Fortland holds a forty-one-metre circular scar where human hands shaped earth into a temporary border. The low bank and shallow ditch mark a place where people lived, loved and left behind the ordinary facts. Fairy names appear only in local story, yet the ring still invites imagination because its purpose has faded from memory.

Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 41m) enclosed by a very low earthen bank and a wide, shallow fosse outside of which is an apparently modern low counterscarp bank. An earlier report (OPW 1970) suggested that the original entrance may have been at ENE. (CUCAP ALJ 73) 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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