What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Tomrud, County Leitrim: a 26m grass ring on a drumlin slope near Glencar valley, with a shallow earthen bank and no marked entrance. It is the kind of place people once kept distant, not from fear of danger but from respect for what does not belong to them.

Located towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a drumlin close to the S edge of Glencar valley. It is not marked on any maps but it is visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: G 371-0). This is a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 26m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; H 0.2m) which is intermittently reduced to a scarp. There is no visible fosse and the original entrance is not identified. The perimeter is slightly truncated by an E-W field bank at 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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