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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Fenagh Beg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Fenagh Beg is a grass-covered oval, forty-five metres long, ringed by a low earth and stone bank on a rise above Lough Reane. The southern bank still stands four and a half metres wide, but the rest has surrendered to growth, hiding any entrance or ditch from modern eyes. A later field bank cuts across the southern perimeter, marking how human hands have repeatedly claimed and released this place. The lake is a hundred metres away, waiting to give back whatever the fort swallowed.
located on a rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape with rock outcrop and c. 100m from the SW shore of Lough Reane. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims 45m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by a low, earth and stone bank (at S: Wth 4.5m; H 0.2m at S) that is overgrown W-N. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and the monument is overlain by an E-W field bank towards the perimeter at S. 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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