What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human places misnamed, often built by ordinary people and later disguised by wonder. This is an earthen ringfort in Dromore, County Leitrim: a grass-covered circular enclosure with a bank, wet ditch and SSE entrance on a gentle slope. A small pit nearby held charcoal and burnt bone, suggesting fires, food or ritual beside the dwelling. The fairy label is a story, not a fact; the earthwork is the evidence.

Located on a gentle SW-facing slope in an undulating landscape. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 29m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a round-topped, overgrown, earthen bank (at SW: Wth of base 3.25m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m) with an external wet fosse (at SW: Wth of base 3m; max. D 0.4m at N). The entrance (Wth of base 4.5m) is at SSE and the monument is overlain by a NE-SW field bank towards the perimeter at NW. Archaeological testing (10E0243) immediately to the SW identified a single pit (dims 1.2m x 0.5m; D 0.18m) filled with marls and clay with some charcoal and burnt bone c. 20m to the SW. (Walsh 2010, 4; 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019 Amended; 16 December 2019

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