What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not for sale or for rent, though they stand in farmland and tempt human ownership. This is an earthen ring in Lisdarush, County Leitrim, an oval grass place with a bank and no clear entrance. People may have lived there, marked it, or avoided it. The field changed around it, but the shape remained, holding its distance from every claim.

Located on a gentle rise of a NW-facing slope towards the bottom of Saddle Hill. This is a grass and scrub-covered oval area (int. dims 33.3m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m at E to 3.8m SW-W) which is reduced to a scarp in places. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The monument is bisected by a N-S field bank, now levelled, and a disused farm track circumscribes it 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. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

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