What is recorded here

No amount of grief or gold could move them, so the humans built walls around the fort instead of asking the fairies to leave. They drew a circle in the dirt, placed a chamber inside it, and waited to be excluded. The fairies did not leave. They joined the chamber, populated the ring, and turned the human warning into a shared world. The fort still stands because exclusion and invitation are not opposites. They are the same request, asked twice.

Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a short N-S drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 7.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.8m) separated by a fosse (at E: Wth of top 9.5m; Wth of base 2.8m; ext. D 2.5m) from an outer bank (at E: Wth of base 5.6m; ext. H 1m). The original entrance is not identified (max. ext. dims c. 60m N-S; c. 64m E-W). 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

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