What is recorded here

Coniferous trees now crowd the earthen ring in Gorteenaguinnell, but a four-metre bank still circles a subcircular space on the Glencar valley slope. People may have built the fort to keep out rain, wolves or neighbours, while later listeners called it a fairy fort because the hidden chamber beneath the soil still resists ordinary explanation. The field wall and pasture have changed its edges, yet the ring remains large enough to walk inside and small enough to feel like a room the earth forgot to finish.

Planted with coniferous trees on a S-facing, pasture slope of Glencar valley. Subcircular area (int. dims 34.5m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.8m) NW-NE which is reduced to a scarp (H 1-1.4m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified but an oval area (dims 11m E-W; 5.5m N-S) against the inside of the bank at N is bounded by a low bank at S. A N-S field wall overlies the edge of the monument at W, and it is overgrown W of this feature. 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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