What is recorded here

Half-hidden on a steep slope above a narrow stream, the fort keeps its shape in grass and stone while the land leans around it. People may have lived there, feared there, or simply marked the boundary between townlands, but the earth still holds a complete oval. Its name feeds the story, yet the stones give no ghost a chamber to occupy.

Situated in the valley of a NW-SE stream on a steep E-facing slope of Crocknagaple Hill. This is a grass-covered oval area (int. dims 27m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.95m) SE-W-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1-2m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. The enclosure is circumscribed by a stone wall and townland boundary with Kilroosk SE-W-NW at a distance of c. 3m from the bank. 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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