What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human origins wearing a magical skin. Letterfine is no different: a circular earth and stone bank, partially erased, sitting on a slope below Sheebeg Hill. The fairies may have taken the story, but people made the shape. They dug, carried, excluded, remembered, and left a round mark the land still holds.

Located at the crest of a N-facing slope on the lower NW-facing slope of Sheebeg Hill. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 21m E-W) defined by an intermittently visible earth and stone bank (at SE: Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.45m) N-E-SW, which is reduced to a scarp (at NW: H 0l.7m) elsewhere, and slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 2m). 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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