What is recorded here

No human fort is recorded at Kiltycarney, yet a thirty-metre grass circle lies trapped among drumlins, marked only by a broad band of rushes. The boundary is incomplete where a field bank and drain cut through it, suggesting the earth itself forgot the shape rather than any person abandoning it. A stream runs beside the formation, feeding the reeds that define its edge. The absence of an entrance and the refusal of maps to acknowledge the site transform the fort into a living boundary, not a dead ruin.

Situated in a low-lying position among drumlins, with a small canalised NE-SW stream c. 50m to the NW. No archaeological feature is recorded on any map at this location but a D-shaped area is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 152-3) and some later series (OSAP: 2012). This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 30m) defined by a band of rushes and reeds (Wth 4m). The original entrance is not identified but the perimeter is truncated slightly by a NW-SE field bank and drain at SW. 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 revised upload: 15 October 2019

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