What is recorded here

Killaleen holds a three-handed fort where the Bonet River bends twice within four hundred metres, as if the water itself drew the circles. The inner bank still stands a metre high around a twenty-four-foot chamber, but the outer rings have softened into grassy ridges and a strip of rushes that might mark drowned walkways. People called it a fairy fort, which is often what humans say when they refuse to remember which family lived there.

Located on a slight rise on the flood-plain of the Bonet River, with a N-S section of the stream c. 250m from the E and an E-W section c. 200m to the S. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 24.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at W: Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1m) SE-W-NE, and slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 4m). Two outer bands of thin vegetation on slight rises (Wth of each c. 5m) with an intervening band of rushes (Wth 3-4.5m) are the only indications of the two outer enclosing elements (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 348-7) of a trivallate rath. The original entrance is not identified. 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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