What is recorded here

Indicated is a grass-covered stone ringfort on a Leitrim hillock, its oval chamber thirty-four metres long and bounded by a drystone wall still standing two metres high. Two gaps break the circle at north-west and south-east, inviting entry rather than blocking it. A hollowed bullaun stone and an inscribed stone once belonged here but now rest inside Tullaghan church, pulled from the open field into human keeping. The fort remains exposed on the hilltop, marked by no sign yet unmistakable in shape, waiting for someone to walk its perimeter and ask what it was built to hold back or bring in.

On top of a hillock. Grass-covered oval area (int. dims 34.5m N-S; 26.5m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 1.25m; max. int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.05m) with facing-stones and a hedge. There are entrance gaps at NNW (Wth 2.3m) and SE (Wth 2.4m). A bullaun stone (LE001-035002-) and a stone with an inscription (LE001-035003-), which are probably from this monument, are now kept at Tullaghan Roman Catholic church (LE001-063001-; LE001-063002-). 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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