What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not fantasy; they are ordinary human places misread because they stopped being homes before written records began. In Headford, a shallow D-shaped scarp still marks where people lived, worked and left behind a shape the land never fully forgot.

Located in improved but ungrazed pasture, on a gentle E-facing slope. It was first identified by Susan Curran as part of an M.A. thesis with University College Dublin using a LiDAR survey dataset commissioned by Leitrim County Council and the National Roads Authority. This is a D-shaped area (dims 28m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a scarp (at S: Wth 3m; H 0.4m) SSE-SW and NW-NNE, but it merges into the slope SW-NW. The perimeter is slightly truncated by a silted E-W drain at N and by a N-S field bank at E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 11 May, 2015

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