What is recorded here

Marianne Rachael Lacey, a tall and very strong young woman, stood beside the stone ring in Ramooney, her red hair catching the last light while she waited for Dan. The fort sat on a natural rise above Tullyskeherny, its grass-covered wall marking a boundary people still recognized though they no longer lived inside it. She liked that the stones had kept their shape through centuries of rain and forgetting. When Dan finally arrived, breathless and laughing, she pointed at the entrance and told him the fairy fort had been patient enough to hold a human meeting.

Situated on top a natural rise on the NW-facing slope of a hill. Grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims. 20.5m E-W; 17.1m N-S) defined by a grass-covered and overgrown stone spread (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.85m) with the intermittently visible facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1.1m). The entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at ENE and the perimeter at E forms the townland boundary with Tullyskeherny. Cashel (LE011-022----) is c. 50m to the S. 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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