What is recorded here

Half-hidden in conifers on a low drumlin, the Creevy ringfort keeps its shape despite centuries of scrub and shadow. Its earthen bank still rises two metres in places, and the shallow ditch outside marks the boundary of a space small enough to hold a household but large enough to swallow a person whole. The name fairy fort suggests danger or mischief, yet the measurements point to human hands shaping soil into a defensible circle. Perhaps it was both: a home first, then a legend, the kind of place where ordinary life disappears and story takes its room.

Situated on top of a low drumlin in mixed woodland. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 36.5m E-W; 33.6m N-S; int. dims 32.45m E-W; 27.8m N-S) with some trees defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-7m; int. H 0.2m E-S to 1m W-N; ext. H 2-2.2m) and an external fosse (Wth of top 5-6.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 1m). The bank is best preserved at N and incorporated into a field bank NE-SE where the fosse is recut as a drain (Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.2m). The original entrance (Wth 2.6m) is a slight dip in the perimeter at SE, the lowest point of the interior. Rath (025-028---) is c. 50m to the S, and this monument remains unplanted, although overgrown, in a coniferous forest (Bing 2013). 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: 26 January 2017

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