What is recorded here

Larkfield is a house and garden now, but beneath the lawn and paving stones lies a forgotten ringfort that once stood forty metres across on the Bonet river valley slope. The fort vanished from human memory before modern cameras arrived, yet its circular shadow still shapes the land where people build and breathe. What was lost is not gone, only waiting for someone to stop measuring and begin listening.

Located on the W-facing slope of a hill in the Bonet river valley and towards the bottom of the steep NW-facing slope of Tullyskeherny. Indicated as a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) described as a 'Fort' on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as an arc of a bank (C c. 35m) SW-N-NE on the NW side of a road on the 1945 ed. No feature is visible at ground level and the area is occupied by a house and garden. Archaeological testing (19E0624) on what would probably be its perimeter at N produced no related material (Hull 2019; excavations.ie 2019: 337). 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/revision: 13 December 2011 Amended: 28 October 2020

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