What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mullaghboy (leitrim By.) stands on a drumlin crest where a forty-five metre rath once circled the slope. Field walls and hedges have cut away most of the ring, leaving only a thirty metre earthen arc that still marks the ghost of the whole. The missing half does not vanish; it transfers into the hedge and stone, continuing the circle in human form.

Located at the crest of the S-facing slope of a short N-S drumlin ridge. A round-topped earthen bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) surviving N-E (C c. 30m) is the only remaining feature of a possible rath (original diam. c. 45m) which is truncated by a NW-SE field wall and hedge at SW and a NE-SW field wall and hedge at SE. There is no visible fosse. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.