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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumharkan Glebe

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Half the fort is gone, eaten by a field bank or forgotten by ploughmen, leaving a D-shaped scar on the drumlin slope where a complete circle once stood. What remains is a shallow breath of earth, barely sixty centimetres high, yet wide enough to suggest hands that dug and built without hesitation. The missing eastern half does not feel like loss so much as invitation, as if the fort stepped aside to let the land continue its own shape.
Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is now a grass-covered D-shaped area (dims 45m N-S; c. 25m E-W) defined by the slight remains of an earthen bank (at W: Wth of base 4.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) and an external fosse (at W: Wth of top 4.6m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 0.9m) S-W-N. The monument is bisected by a N-S field bank and has been removed E of this feature. 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: 9 December, 2019

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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