What is recorded here

Thirty-one metres of forgotten earth circles the bottom of a western slope, holding its shape despite the loss of the bank that once cut across it. The fort is so shallow that grass and doubt occupy it together, yet the faint external ditch still catches rain in a ribbon of rushes. It stands a hundred metres from a larger rath, suggesting a neighbourhood rather than a lonely mistake. What the field swallowed, the water remembers.

Located towards the bottom of a W-facing slope. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped hachured feature truncated by an E-W field bank at N. This is scrub-covered circular area (diam. c. 31m N-S; c. 31m E-W) defined by a slight scarp (max. H 0.4m), with slight traces of an external fosse NE-E which is visible occasionally as a band of rushes elsewhere. The E-W field bank has been removed but there is no identifiable entrance. Rath (LE018-031----) is c. 100m to the SE. 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

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.