What is recorded here

Blast Hill casts its shadow westward onto a circular trap where human ingenuity met fairy resistance. The earthen bank stands half a metre high on three sides but rises into a brutal scarp elsewhere, suggesting the builders abandoned the project when the ground itself refused to be shaped. A narrow eastern gap leads into the rush-choked centre, preserving the exact moment human ambition collapsed under the weight of local belief.

Situated at the bottom of the W-facing slope of Blast Hill. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 19.7m N-S; 19.2m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.1-0.5m; ext. H 0.7-0.8m) N-E-S, which is reduced to a scarp (H 1-1.1m) elsewhere. There is an outer fosse (Wth of base 2.3-2.8m) represented by a band of rushes, and the entrance (Wth 0.8m) is at E. 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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