What is recorded here

No visible entrance, two hidden streams, and a road bank swallowing one side. The fort is a smudged circle on a steep knoll, more suggestion than fact. What was built there has been half-erased by time and half-claimed by legend.

Situated on a knoll towards the bottom of a steep E-facing slope at the NE foothills of Tievebaun Mountain, with a small W-E stream c. 10m to the N and a small S-N stream c. 20m to the E. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 24m E-W; c. 23m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3m; H 0.3m-0.5m) SW-NW, a stoney scarp (H 1-1.4m) NW-NE and the perimeter is incorporated into a stone road bank NE-S. The perimeter is covered in scrub and holly trees, but it cannot be traced S-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the mass-rock (LE003-00702-) abuts the outside of the perimeter at NW. 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

A circular grass and stone ringfort in Shesknan, likely dating to the early medieval period, situated on a knoll with natural water sources nearby. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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