What is recorded here

Danish Fort on Wogan's 1750 map, but the earth and stone ring in Drumbad belongs to no date certain. Twenty-four metres across, half swallowed by grass and cut through by a field bank, it keeps its shape like a forgotten promise. The entrance has vanished, the fosse barely shows, yet the circle remains visible in the low ground where people once drew a line between inside and out.

Situated in a low-lying area. A ‘Danish Fort’ is depicted on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 27), and on later OS 6-inch maps. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. c. 24m N-S; c. 22m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (at S: Wth of base 7.9m; Wth of top 1.5m; int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2m) with slight traces of an external fosse (at S: Wth of top 4m; Wth of base 1m; ext. D 0.5m). The original entrance is not identified, and the monument is bisected by an ENE-WSW 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 7 January 2020

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