What is recorded here

Darkvalley holds a broken ring where human hands shaped earth into a circle before fairy tales took the credit. The grassy bank, rush-filled ditch and eastern gap still mark a place where people lived, worked and left behind a shape the forest never erased.

Located towards the top of a N-facing slope. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (diam. 23.8m E-W; 22.7m N-S) defined by a low, grass-covered scarp (H 0.8m) SW-N-E and by a grass-covered earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4.4m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.3m) with some bushes elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 3m) is visible as a band of rushes NW-E-SW and the entrance (Wth 3m) is at E. There is a small, grass-covered spoil mound (diam. 7m; max. H 0.6m) at the centre and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank S-W. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest. 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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