What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fairy forts, they are human ringforts, and this one is a human ringfort: a grass-covered circular platform thirty-two metres across at the south end of a slight ridge, seventy metres from the south shore of Headford Lough. Its scarp rises a metre or more, a narrow fosse cuts across part of the ridge, and an outer bank still shows through the scrub. The entrance has not been identified, but the shape is clear enough: a small defended place set low beside the water, likely built and lived in during the medieval period when such raths dotted the Irish landscape.

Located at the S end of a slight NE-SW ridge in a low-lying position c. 70m from the S shore of Headford Lough. This is a grass-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 32.6m NW-SE; 32.3m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m at SW to 1.7m at NW), which has a hedge and is incorporated into a field bank SE-W-NW. The perimeter is formed by traces of a fosse (Wth of top 5m; max. D 0.3m) across the ridge NE-SE but it cannot be distinguished NW-NE. The scarp is separated by a berm (at SW: Wth 3m) from a scrub-covered outer bank (at SW: Wth of base 5m; max. int. H 0.6m; max. ext. H 0.6m) SE-W-NW. The original entrance is not identified. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 5 December 2019

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