
What is recorded here
Half a kilometre from the first rath, this forgotten circle still holds its shape on the drumlin slope. Grass and shadow have swallowed the entrance, but the earthen bank remains high enough to touch and wide enough to resist forgetting. Two forts so close suggest a threshold rather than a mistake: one for people, one for the stories they refused to lose.
Located on the NW-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank (at NE: Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.5m; max. ext. H 1.1m), with a slight external fosse (Wth 2m) visible at NE. The original entrance is not identified. Rath (LE027-103----) is c. 50m tot he SE.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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