What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Coraughrim is a circular earthwork about thirty metres across, hidden beneath dense rushes on a drumlin slope above the River Shannon. S. Curran revealed it through LiDAR data for an M.A. thesis at University College Dublin, while the ground itself gives only a faint curve in a field boundary. The fort may have been a home, a boundary marker or a place of ritual, but its true purpose has faded with the people who shaped it.

Situated just off the crest of the N-facing slope of a drumlin with the River Shannon c. 300m to the W and c. 320m to the S. It was first identified by S. Curran as part of an M.A. Thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the NRA. It is clearly visible on the LIDaR image as a circular area (diam. c. 30m) but the only indication on the ground in an area of dense rush-growth is a curve in a field boundary (C 22m) NE-SW) SW-NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 April, 2013 Amended: 15 April, 2014

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