What is recorded here

No visible entrance, no ditch, no break in the ring that a person could point to and call a door. The fort is a shallow oval of grass and soil, twenty-eight metres across, half swallowed by a field bank and a drainage cut. It sits beside Kilmaddaroe Lough in low, wet pasture, the kind of place where borders blur and things disappear. Whatever it was built to keep out, or keep together, it has done so by becoming ordinary.

Located on level, poorly drained, low-lying rough pasture, c. 150m NW of Kilmaddaroe Lough. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 28m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 7.1m; Wth of top 3.0m; int. H 0.05; ext. H 0.1m) NNW-E-SW, which is incorporated in a tree-lined field bank (at NW: Wth of base 3.1m; Wth of top 1.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) and outer drain (at NW: Wth of top 2.8m; ext. D 0.5m) W-NNW. From a point at W the field bank runs SE over the SW arc of the enclosure. There are modern gaps through the field bank at SSW and W, but three is no evidence of an original entrance or fosse. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 May, 2015

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