What is recorded here

Carrowleagh holds a broken fairy fort where a low ridge watches wet pasture. Its earthen scarps still rise a metre above the grass, marking a semi-circular space large enough for a household but open toward the northeast as if waiting for someone to return. Cattle walk through the gap now, turning the ancient boundary into ordinary ground while the stones beneath keep their own quieter memory.

In pasture, on a low ridge, with good views. To W ground slopes to a lowlying expanse of wettish pasture. This enclosure is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map; it is shown on the 1922 edition as a penannular hachured area, open to NE. It consist of a slightly raised, semi-circular area (30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined on the curving side at E-WNW by a scarp with a low internal lip (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35; ext. H 1.05 to S, 1.5m to W), from which stones protrude. To N−NE the enclosure has been levelled, here there is an area of rough, uneven ground, dotted with field clearance heaps. There is a slight depression (Wth c. 2m) outside the bank to E, possibly indicating an infilled fosse, but it cannot be traced elsewhere. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

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