What is recorded here

No visible gap marks the entrance, yet the grassy oval sits proud on a drumlin ridge, waiting for someone to remember how it opened. The western bank still holds its shape while scarps fade elsewhere, suggesting human hands shaped the earth before forgetting their own work. Fairy fort is a teasing name, but the measured dimensions and surviving bank point to a real residence, perhaps a seasonal home or a boundary marker for a lost lineage.

Located on top of a NE-SW drumlin ridge at its NE end. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 41.5m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank at W (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.55m), and by an overgrown scarp (max. H 1m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse and 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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