What is recorded here

Mortons and others lived beside the fort, but nobody knows when the fort stopped being a home and became a fairy place. The boundary between the human world and the fairy world has always been thin in Ireland, and a quiet abandoned house is the kind of gap where belief can enter. The fort may have been somebody's ordinary home before it became a fairy fort, and the change may have come gradually as people stopped visiting and started telling stories instead.

Located on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 27m N-S; 25.5m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m), with an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.1m) N-E. The original entrance is not identified, and the perimeter is slightly truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW. 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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