What is recorded here

Druminargid holds a D-shaped cashel where two stone concentrations mark children's burials, preserving a brutal truth about life and death in County Leitrim. The double-faced wall still stands highest on the west, suggesting the community valued the boundary enough to build it carefully before stone became scarce. That much remains visible, while the names, ages and causes of the children have disappeared into time. The place does not need invention because it already states what it is: a household circle that also served as a graveyard for its smallest members.

On a N-facing slope of a S-N spur. Two concentrations of stones inside the perimeter of the cashel (LE005-01801-) at E (dims 6m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) and S (dims c. 7m E-W; c. 4-5m N-S) are contained within a D-shaped enclosure (dims 37m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a double-faced drystone wall which is most substantial (Wth 1.4-1.8m; max. H 1.4m) SW-NW, but declines to a stone spread (Wth 1.5m) at SE. The enclosure backs on to a NW-SE field bank and drain at NE, which is the townland boundary with Conray, and was used as a children's burial ground (Faughnan 1943, file no. 126). 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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