What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there, though the name still flies ahead of the truth. A human hand raised a broad earthen bank around a small living space at the bottom of a gentle slope, leaving an eastern gap wide enough for entry and a surrounding ditch to mark the edge of its world. The grass has since swallowed most of that shape, but the fort still turns the land into a room, waiting for someone to remember why it was built.

Situated towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (dims 46m N-S: 40m E-W; int. dims 40m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a flat-topped, overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.5-7m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 0.7m at N to 2.2m at S, downslope) with an external fosse (Wth of top 5.5-8.2m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.5-0.8m), which might be re-cut as a drain at N (Wth of top 2.7m; Wth of base 1m; ext. D 0.2m)). There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) and causeway (Wth 4m) at E. 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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