What is recorded here

No one knows the fort's true name or the people who first lived there, but the stones still stand in a rough oval on the drumlin's south face. They may have been a home, a fortress or a boundary marker, yet the missing entrance and faded ditch suggest the site resisted easy understanding even before it became a fairy fort in local memory. The land kept the shape while human knowledge thinned, turning an ordinary residence into a place where the unseen might still occupy what the seen world forgot.

Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a broad drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (int. dims 31.4m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 4-4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.9m; ext. H 1.3m at E to 2.2m at S), with traces of an outer fosse (Wth of base 1-1.5m; ext. D 0.3m) ESE-SW. There is no identifiable original entrance. 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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