What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Carrigeencor: a 37m grass circle on a drumlin above Carrigeencor Lough, marked by a slight bank and a taller scarp rather than a grand wall. It is the kind of place people named for what they could not explain, while humans may have stood there watching water, weather or traffic along the valley. The earth keeps its shape because it is still useful to the eye, even when the entrance has disappeared.

Visible as a slight circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 365-7). It is located on top of a drumlin on the floor of the NE-SW Bonet River valley, and overlooks Carrigeencor Lough, which is c. 500m to the W and NW. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 37m) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.1m) N-E-SSW and by a scarp (H 0.5-1.2m) elsewhere. 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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