What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined stone ringfort on a north-facing slope in County Leitrim, its twenty-four-metre circle partly swallowed by a children's burial ground and a field drain. The fort has lost a sixth of its length to the cut bank at the northeast, yet the remaining stone spread still marks the edge of a place where human life and local belief both claimed the same ground. What is missing is not emptiness; it is the shape of the life that built and used the circle before the field took it back.

On the N-facing slope of a S-N spur. Grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 24m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3-3.5m) E-SW and incorporated into the boundary wall of a children's burial ground (LE005-01802-) SW-N. The monument is truncated by a NW-SE field bank and drain at NE (L 16m). 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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