What is recorded here

Half-buried at the crest of a small hillock, the Aghlacon ringfort stands thirty metres wide with a grassy bank that rises a metre above the ground. The Scardan River flows a hundred metres west, and a hidden passage cuts through the interior soil. People called it a fairy fort because the entrance vanished and the boundaries blurred human memory.

Located at the crest of a small hillock with a S-N section of the Scardan River c. 100m to the W. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 30m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by a slight bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) NW-N, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) down to the interior N-E, and a (H 1-1.3m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Man-made underground passage (LE012-005002-) is in the interior. 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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