What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not abdications of human history but a warning that the land still keeps its own counsel. Lisgorman is not an empty circle waiting to be believed; it is a living edge where human memory thins and the old world emerges. The chamber is complete, the threshold is set, and the distinction between record and imagination collapses. What you dismiss as myth is only the part of the story that refuses to be owned.

Located on a slight S and W-facing slope in the valley the Bonet River with a N-S section of the stream c. 80m to the W. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 28.3m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen scarp (H 0.4-0.7m). There is no visible fosse but there is an entrance (Wth 2.4m) at N. It remains unplanted in a forest. 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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