What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisgillock Glebe stands on a slight rise above a low landscape, its circular earthwork marking a place set apart from the surrounding fields. The bank and ditch enclose a small world where conifers still grow, suggesting the fort has resisted full erasure by farming or forgetting. A farmyard sits close to the south, tying the ancient shape to ongoing human life rather than abandoning it to legend. The site does not need a dramatic story to be remarkable; its continuity is the wonder.

Situated on a rise in a fairly low-lying landscape with a farmyard immediately to the S. This is a circular area (int. diam. 32.5m E-W; crest to crest 36.6m E-W) planted with coniferous trees, which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m at W to 4.6m at E; int. H 0.5-0.7m) and an external fosse which has been re-cut as a flat-bottomed ditch (at E: Wth of base 1.6m; D below bank 1.8m; ext. D 0.8m). 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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