What is recorded here
Mullaghbrack holds a forgotten door on a drumlin ridge, where grass swallows the stones and the fairies keep their own time. The earth rises in two rings around an empty chamber, waiting for the boy who ran ahead of his shadow. What he touched is no longer written, but the ridge still remembers his heat.
Situated on top of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. c. 50m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth of base c. 8m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H 3.5m) separated by a fosse (Wth of top 8.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; ext. D 1.5m) from an outer overgrown earthen bank (at E: Wth of base 5.5m; ext. H 0.5m). 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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 9 December, 2019
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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