What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide because they are not proud. This is a stone circle in Aghameelta, County Leitrim, with a smaller circle inside it, like a room within a room. People may have lived there, or excluded others from it. The stones do not say which. They still form a boundary, and boundaries remember the shape of the people who first drew them.

Situated on a slight rise on the floor of a valley. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 23.8 N-S; 23.7m E-W) defined by the overgrown remains of a stone spread (Wth 0.8-2.2m; max. H 0.4m) with no identifiable original entrance. The monument is truncated at SE by a NE-SW field bank and there is a circular hut site (int. diam. 4.8m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 0.8-1.3m) but with no visible entrance at the centre. 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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