What is recorded here

Muddy water still gleams in the fort ditch on dark nights, and local people call the ruin a fairy fort rather than a human home. The flat ground between drumlins gives no clue to its age, but the rounded earth bank and broken entrance suggest people lived there before the fields swallowed the path. Maybe the fairies took the house when the humans left, or maybe the humans never stopped leaving it alone.

Located in a flat low-lying landscape between drumlins. This is a grass-covered subcircular platform (dims 31.5m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1m at N to 1.6m at W) and a fosse (Wth of top 5.5-6m; Wth of base 2-3m; D 0.2m) E-S-NW, and a field bank with an outer drain elsewhere. The 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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