What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Skreeny, County Leitrim: a 29 m circular grassy ring with a steep earthen bank and shallow outer ditch on a rise above the Glenfarne valley. The entrance has disappeared under grass and habit, while cattle still use the middle as a paddock. People may have lived there before becoming a field, but the earth keeps its shape like a room nobody abandoned.

Situated on a rise in an undulating, low-lying landscape at the W end of the E-W Glenfarne valley, with a small NNE-SSW stream c. 50-85m distant SW-NW. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m) defined by an overgrown, steep-sided and round-topped earthen bank (Wth 2.15m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.75m) with an outer fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.15). The original entrance is not identified and It is now used as a paddock. 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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