What is recorded here

Half the fort is gone, but the remaining earthen bank still curves through the coniferous forest like a boundary drawn by someone in a hurry. It sits on a steep slope beneath the Dartry mountains, close enough to the stream for water to sound like breath in the trees. The missing section may have been taken for fields, roads or simplicity itself, yet the surviving curve still asks you to notice the shape of what was lost.

Within a coniferous forest on a steep N-facing slope towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of the Dartry mountains, with a SE-NW section of a stream c. 45m to the E. Depicted as an embanked enclosure and described as a fort on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature (diam. c. 35m) on the 1907 ed. An earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.5m) with no visible fosse defines the E side of an enclosure, the rest of which has been quarried away. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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