What is recorded here

Susan Curran revealed the hidden ringfort on a Leitrim drumlin when LiDAR stripped away centuries of grass and forgetting. The earth still holds a shallow circular scar, perhaps thirty metres across, marked by faint fosse traces and a missing entrance that defies easy drawing. It sits beside two other raths, suggesting a small cluster of human ambition rather than a lonely mistake. The fort may have housed families, stored grain, or witnessed arguments about land, yet it returned quietly to the ridge after the people left.

Located on a knoll at the SW end of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. Thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32.5m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at N; 0.5m at E and S to 0.8m at W), with traces of a fosse at N (Wth of top 3m; D 0.2m) and S (Wth of top 5m; D 0.1m) across the ridge of the drumlin. There is no identifiable entrance but the interior is overlain by an ENE-WSW field bank and drain S of the centre, and there is a N-S track through the field bank. There is a rectangular grass-covered mound (dims of base 7m E-W; 4.7m N-S; dims of top 6.2m E-W; 3.6m N-S; H 0.4-0.6m) with some trees outside the perimeter at NNE, which may have been built by the Ordinance Survey to provide a spot-height (276') on top of the hill. Rath (LE031-119----) is c. 35m to the W in Kiltycarney townland and rath (LE031-053----) is c. 85m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 April, 2013 Amended: 15 April, 2014; 11 May, 2015

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