What is recorded here

Fairy fort and human ringfort share one D-shaped shadow in Aghamore, but the road cut through its east edge and the real boundary has become a suggestion. Susan Curran drew that shadow out of leaf-less earth with LiDAR, not from memory or legend. The pasture may have walked over a doorway, a hearth, a warning, or a whole small life. What remains is a place that stopped being obvious, not a place that stopped existing.

Situated in improved pasture on a platform that rises slightly from a NW-facing slope. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a D-shaped area (dims. 23m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp (at S: Wth 1.3m; H 0.15m) with traces of a fosse (at S: Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base Wth 1.8m; D 0.1m) ESE-W-N. The perimeter is truncated at ENE by the tree-lined raised carriageway (H c. 4-5m) of the NNW-SSE N4 road. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 May, 2014

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Aghamore, likely dating to the early medieval period, is situated on a slight natural platform on a north-west facing slope. Local tradition may associate it with fairy lore, as suggested by its name, though specific folklore is not recorded.

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