What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Gulladoo, County Leitrim: a 47-metre grass-and-rush ring on a drumlin crest, with an earthen bank, broken entrance at north, and a shallow outer ditch. People may have lived there, marked territory there, or kept animals inside its rough circle before the bank softened into landscape. The fairies enter only when the facts stop claiming to understand the place.

Situated at the crest of the S-facing slope of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 47m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 3.3-4.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1-1.2m) W-NE and at S where it is incorporated into a field bank and hedge, but elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp (at E: Wth 2.6m; H 1.5m) with a fosse represented by an outer berm (at E: Wth 8m) defined by a scarp (at E: Wth 1.4m; ext. H 0.7m). There is a modernised entrance through the bank at N. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 9 December, 2019

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