What is recorded here

Fawn holds a broad earthen ring where human hands shaped the land before fairy tales claimed it back. The grassy bank still stands beside a shallow ditch, enclosing a space large enough for kitchens, byres and argument. People may have lived there, feared there or simply passed it with a nod. The ring endures because it stopped being ordinary and became a boundary between the known world and the strange one underneath.

In an undulating landscape with rock outcrop. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims. 33m E-W; 31.2m N-S) defined by an overgrown earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.2m), with an external fosse (Wth 1.8m; D 0.3m) and outer bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.3m) NW-NE. An oval hollow (dims. 7m N-S; 4.3m E-W; D 0.45m) inside the bank at N may be the result of quarrying. 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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