What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen ringforts: small circular ditches and banks where people lived, kept animals, or marked territory before written records. In Headford, the fort is a grassy ring on a drumlin slope, its bank partly swallowed by a field edge and its entrance widened by centuries of traffic. It is not a castle or a mystery chamber; it is a domestic place made faint by time. The local name adds a layer of wonder, but the shape is human: a home, a boundary, and a reason the land still remembers being used.

Located on the S-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered circular area (int. diam. 24.9m E-W; 22.8m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth of base 3.7m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) with no visible fosse. The perimeter is incorporated in a field bank NE-SE and there are entrance gaps at SW and NNE, but the entrance (Wth of base 4m) at SE could be the original, although widened. The rath has remained unplanted in a forest since 2000 (OSAP). 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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