What is recorded here

Fairy forts are a class of small, oval or round enclosed places built with earthen banks. They are called fairy forts because local tradition long believed they belonged to hidden or displaced people. The name is not a claim that fairies built them. It records that ordinary human uses had already been forgotten when the story took over.

On a low rise on the floor of Glenade valley. Grass and scrub-covered oval area (int. dims 25m NNW-SSE; 21m ENE-WSW) defined by a round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.9m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.3m) E-S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere and which is separated by a flat-bottomed fosse, best preserved E-S (Wth of base 2.25m; D 0.25m), from an external bank (Wth 3m; H 0.25m) NE-E-SSW. The entrance (Wth 2.2m) and causeway are at SE. 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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