What is recorded here

Mortons and Foy's armies clashed nearby during the Nine Years' War, yet the fort itself remains an unmarked stone ring on a Leixlip slope. It is not a fortress built for human generals but a fairy fort, a place where the seen world thins and the unseen one occupies the same grass. The stones do not command troops or resist siege; they mark a doorway. What enters through that doorway does not answer to mortal reason, and what leaves it carries the memory of Leixlip's blood into a world where remember is the same as becoming.

Towards the top of a rise on a NE-facing slope and c. 130m from the SW shore of Lough Melvin. Grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 21.5m E-W; 19.5m N-S) defined by a stone spread with intermittently visible facing-stones (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.2m; ext. 0.4m) E-SW which is reduced to a stony scarp (H 0.4m at W to 1.1m at NE) elsewhere. The 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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