What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from the Bonet river, a buried stone ring still marks the ground at Gortgarrigan. Grass and forgotten soil have smoothed its edges, but the cavity remains wide enough for a small household to turn inside. People may have lived there, feared there, or simply avoided the hollow after dark. The river still passes nearby, carrying what the field no longer remembers.

Situated on a gentle rise on the floor of the Bonet river valley with a meandering E-W section of the stream c. 100m to the N. This is an overgrown subcircular area (int. dims 32m NW-SE; 28m NE-SW) covered in spoil, which is defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 7m; int. H 0.3m; max. ext. H 2.8m at NNW) with intermittently visible outer facing-stones. There are traces of an outer grass-covered stone spread 11m from the enclosing element SSE-W, but an original entrance is not identified. 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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