What is recorded here

Cloonaquin holds a small earthen ring on a drumlin above Coolnaquin Lough, its steep bank and outer ditch still marking a circular space about seventeen metres across. The wood has taken the place back, but the shape remains clear enough to walk around and imagine inside. It is the kind of fort people built to live, defend or declare themselves, yet local memory has since called it a fairy fort, as if the humans left and something else moved in.

Located on the summit of a small drumlin of the floor of the Bonet river valley overlooking Coolnaquin Lough (max. dims c. 150m NNE-SSW; c. 90m NW-SE) c. 100m to the N. This is an overgrown, circular area (int. diam. 17.5m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a round-topped, steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1m), reduced to a scarp at E, and an external fosse (Wth 2.1m). It is within a wood. 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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