What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human inventions, often older than local memory, yet the name still does real work: it keeps people distant and the place strange. Under that teasing label sits a substantial earthwork, a circular platform about thirty metres across, shaped by a steep inner scarp, a wide fosse and a thinner outer bank that now survives mainly from the northwest through the east to the southeast. The missing southern edge has been reduced to a low berm, while a modern entrance ramp cuts through the southeast. That incomplete circle is not a failure of imagination; it is a record of time, erosion and use. The fairies may be fictional, but the earth is not.

Situated on a knoll towards the bottom of a W-facing slope with a SE-NW stream c. 20-35m to the SW. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular platform (diam. 31m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 1.1-1.3m W-N to 2.4m elsewhere) which is separated by an overgrown fosse (at N: Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 3m; ext. D 0.6m) from an outer bank (at N: Wth of base 3m; ext. H 0.5m), both of which only survive only NW-NE-SE although the fosse is reduced to a berm (at S; Wth 1m) elsewhere. There is an entrance ramp, probably modern, at SE. 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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