What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the last road, a ring of earth still stands where hands first lifted it. The grass has forgotten the shape of the made world, but the circle remembers: wide enough to turn a cart, deep enough to keep rain from the floor, open only at the southeast where light enters last. People may have lived inside it, or kept it empty on purpose. A fort is not a wall against other people when the wall has no gate to show or lock to break. It is a line drawn around the life being protected. The fairies never left because the shape never stopped being true.

Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 18.8m NE-SW; 18.6m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5.5m; int. H 0.3-1m; ext. H 1.1m at S, upslope, to 1.9m at N), with an outer fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.4m) N-S-W. The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at SE. Archaeological testing (04E0303) c. 50m to the E at the nearest point produced no related material (Read 2007). 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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