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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumduff

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No entrance is known, only a hidden gap lost to grass and time. The fort stands at the west end of a drumlin ridge in County Leitrim, its earthen bank rising three and a half metres before dropping into a shallow field drain. People may have entered through a break now erased by growth, or perhaps the fort was never meant to be seen from the outside at all.
Located at the W end of an E-W drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth. 5.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 3.5m) with an outer field drain (Wth of base 1.8m; D 1m) at E, and by a scarp (at NW: max. H 2m) elsewhere. An original entrance is not identified. 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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