What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often called raths because they are human-made ringforts, but the name still does real work: it keeps the place outside ordinary explanation. In Headford the fort is a grass and rush-covered oval, 35m east-west and 25m north-south, on a gentle south-facing slope. Its edge survives as a fosse in the north-east and a scarp elsewhere, while part of the perimeter has been taken into a field bank. The entrance has not been identified, so the fort still withholds its clearest instruction: which way its people entered, and which way the fairy story begins.

Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (dims 35m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by traces of a fosse (at E: Wth of top 7m; int. D 0.7m; ext. D 0.3m) N-E and by a scarp (at S: Wth 4m; H 0.5; at W: Wth 3.5m; H 1.2m) elsewhere. The original entrance is not identified, and the perimeter is incorporated into a field bank NE-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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 5 December 2019

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