What is recorded here
Mortons and fairies both wanted the drumlin, so neither admits the other. That is why the ring keeps its shape under bracken instead of collapsing into ordinary field. A thirty metre circle is large enough to exclude a person, small enough to belong to someone, and the missing middle is where the story lives.
Situated on a low NW-SE drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an intermittently visible scarp (H 0.25m) and slight evidence of a waterlogged fosse. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest planted c. 2010 (Bing 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.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Drumshanbo Railway Stationstore/warehouse · 1.2 mi
bridgebridge · 1.2 mi
Derreenargan WoodWood · 1.6 mi
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1.7 mi
Spiranthes IslandsIslet · 1.7 mi
Holy islandIslet · 1.8 mi
Turlough O'CarolanMemorial · 2.9 mi
Shannon-Erne WaterwayVisitor information · 3.4 mi
Sit of Breifny CastleCastle, tower house · 3.4 mi