What is recorded here

Mortons and others may have built the D-shaped fort on Carrickmurray rock, but the cliff and missing entrance suggest human hands shared the work with older forces. The fairies likely took the finished shape and made it their own, leaving behind a place where human measurement ends and local belief begins.

Situated on a small area of rock outcrop in a low-lying landscape, with a small E-W stream c. 25m to the N. This is an overgrown D-shaped area (ext. dims c. 32m E-W; c. 25m N-S) backing on to a cliff (H c. 6m) at N, which was probably created by an E-W roadway, and defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) E-S-W. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. 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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