
What is recorded here
Indicated is a large oval enclosure on an east-facing slope above Lough Gulladoo, where a thick stone wall rides an earthen bank and a rectangular burial ground presses against its eastern edge. Local tradition still calls it a fort, though no written history has named the people who built it or buried their dead beside it. The lake below has watched the grass grow over that boundary for centuries, keeping the shape intact while forgetting every name that once moved through it.
Located at the crest of and on an E-facing slope overlooking Lough Gulladoo, also known as Errew Lough. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims c. 95m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall on top of an earthen bank (at N: Wth 6.6m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.4m). Against the perimeter at E is the rectangular burial ground (LE0334-006----). The enclosure is regarded in the folk tradition as a ‘fort’ (IFC: Schools’ Collection, vol. 0228, 186, 196).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 December, 2019
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