What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed by folklore, but this is a true fairy fort: a subcircular grass platform forty-three and a half metres across, set just off the crest of a drumlin ridge in Drumard. Its ditch survives best along the west and north, seven metres wide at the top, while the east edge melts into the hillslope and a field bank bites into the south. People may have lived here, or abandoned it and let the fairies take the house. Either way the land kept the shape of the doorway.

Located just off the E-facing crest of a NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered subcircular platform (dims 43.5m E-W; c. 39.2m N-S; H 0.7m) defined by a fosse that is best preserved S-W-N (at SW: Wth of top 7.1m; Wth of base 2m; int. D 0.7m; ext. D 0.4m) but the perimeter melds into the hillslope elsewhere. A NE-SW field bank slightly truncates the enclosure at S. 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 upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 January 2020

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