What is recorded here

Half-buried on a steep ridge in Carrickeeny, the fort keeps its shape in grass and fern, a shallow oval with one end still raised and the other worn flat. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the true entrance has vanished and the place belongs more to story than to reason. It may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a child's climbing bank before memory faded.

Located on the S-facing slope of a steep-sided ridge. This is a grass and fern-covered oval area (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 15m N-S) defined by an earthen bank, which is best preserved at N (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.55m) but reduced to a scarp elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified, but an external band of lush vegetation suggests a fosse and the monument is circumscribed by a field bank NW-NE. See the attached aerial view taken from the N. 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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