What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisgorman is an earthen ringfort on the Bonet River valley slope, its grass-covered circle marked by a stone-and-earth bank, a shallow outer ditch, and a broken quernstone buried in the east wall. It stands close to another rath, suggesting a small settled place rather than a single isolated home. The name fairy fort may be local story rather than fact, but it fits the kind of forgotten residence that seems to belong to somebody no longer living there.

Located on the SW-facing slope of a slight ridge on the floor of the Bonet River valley, with the headwaters of a small NE-SW stream c. 35m to the SE. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 34.2m E-W; 26.7m N-S) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.4-3.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.8-1.2m) with some trees and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.3m), with an outer bank (Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-W. The monument is circumscribed by a roadway E-SW, and the fosse is truncated by a NE-SW field bank at NW and a NW-SE field bank NE. A fragment of a quernstone is incorporated in the bank at ESE. Rath (LE011-090----) is c. 70m to the ESE. 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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