What is recorded here

On a low drumlin in Cloonmulligan, a grass-covered earthen bank still marks an oval home and rectangular annexe from the remote past. The fairies never lived there, though people believed it. They saw the shape and accepted it. You can walk the slope now and measure what human hands made before memory faded.

Situated on the SE-facing slope of a low drumlin. This is a grass-covered oval area (int. dims 32m NE-SW; 18m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; H 0.6m) W-N-SE and a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse visible as a shallow depression (Wth 1.5m; D 0.1m) N-NE. Attached to the S is a rectangular annexe visible as a grass-covered area (dims 26m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.4m; H 0.35m) at S and a fosse (Wth of top 3.2m; int. D 0.35m; ext. D 0.1m) at W. The E edge is provided by a N-S field bank. 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 revised upload: 11 May 2015

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