What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyglass, County Leitrim: a grass-covered stone ring about 24m wide, with a drystone wall, shallow ditch and causewayed entrance on a ridge col overlooking two valleys. It may have been a small stronghold, a boundary marker or a place people returned to when the land changed. The underground passage inside suggests the fort still hides more than its broken wall admits.

Located in a slight col of a N-S outcrop ridge, overlooking the head of a S-N valley just to the W and with a steeper valley to the E. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 24m E-W; 20.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (at S: Wth 3.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m), with internal and external facing-stones and some bushes, which is reduced to a stony scarp W-NW and is absent at N. There is an external fosse or ditch (Wth 1.8m; D 0.25m) E-S and a causewayed entrance (Wth 1.2m) at SSE. Man-made underground passage (LE007-039002-) is in the interior. 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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