What is recorded here

No fairy fort in Gortnacorkoge. That is a mislabelled ordinary field boundary, nothing more. The real fact is a curving earthen bank with an external fosse on a low shoulder of a ridge in County Leitrim. The interior is truncated by later field banks into a small rectangular grass area. People lived or worked there under a false name, and the false name still blocks the truth.

Situated on a low shoulder on the NW-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. A curving earthen bank (C 20m; Wth 3m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) with an accompanying external fosse (Wth 2.6m) survives NW-NE but the interior of the monument is truncated by field banks elsewhere, creating a small, rectangular, grass-covered area (dims. 20m E-W; 14.5m N-S) S of the surviving bank. 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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