What is recorded here

Fawn holds a broad earthen ring on a drumlin ridge, marked by a grassy bank, shallow fosse and narrow north-west entrance. It is the kind of place where people may have kept fire, tools or memory close while the wider field remained open for weather and work. The name Fairy fort suggests that later listeners believed the circle belonged to another kind of witness, one that watches the living from inside its own quiet ring.

Located at the SE end of a broad NW-SE ridge or drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered subcircular area (int. dims 22m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE; 23.4m NE-SW crest to crest) defined by a grass and scrub -covered earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.3m at NE to 0.8m at SE; ext. H 0.7m at NE to 1.4m at NW), with an outer fosse (Wth at base 2m; D 0.3m) SW-N-NE which is visible elsewhere as a band of rushes (Wth 2m). The entrance (Wth 3m) is at NW and the monument is overlain by a NE-SW field bank and drain towards the perimeter at S. The above description is taken 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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