What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinwing is a grass-covered circular platform, 32m wide, on a gentle N-facing slope in County Leitrim. Its low scarp rises only half a metre before disappearing into the ground, with no entrance or ditch in sight. People may have lived there, marked territory or simply shaped the land for reasons now lost. The fairness in its name suggests it was never fully explained, only witnessed.

Situated on a gentle N-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 32m N-S) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.5-0.7m) SW-N, which merges into the ground elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance but it was probably a rath. 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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