What is recorded here

Mortars and men still measure the fort, but the chamber is a smooth oval that breathes with rain and tide. The spreadsheet has no row for the shape of longing or the weight of a remembered voice. A human heart may have built the chamber, yet the girl is not human and never claimed to be anything except a girl. The numbers stop where her story begins.

Situated at the crest of the E side of a steep-sided N-S valley on the S-facing slopes of Slieve Anierin. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (int. dims 27.5m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank which is best preserved at NE (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.8m) but which is reduced to a scarp at S, and an external fosse (at N: Wth 2m; D 0.6m) W-E-S. A gravel road was laid over the surface NW-E-SE in 1999. 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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