What is recorded here

A 35-metre earthen ring in Drumbibe, marked as a fort on the 1835 map, still holds an abandoned school at its centre. Children may have run across that grass long before concrete closed the edge, while adults pointed to the circle and called it a fairy fort. The story lives in the shape: a common field turned into a stage for imagination, with a stream waiting seventy metres away like a boundary no one drew.

Situated in a low-lying position in an undulating landscape with a NE-SW section of a stream c. 70m to the SE. A circular embanked enclosure is indicated on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a 'fort'. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. c. 35m; H 1-1.3m) with a concrete wall on the perimeter and an abandoned school at the centre. 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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