What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Killananima, County Leitrim, is a grass and rush-covered oval ringfort beside the Bonet River, with a low earthen scarp and a narrow entrance ramp at the northeast. People may have lived there, marked their land, or kept animals inside the rushy boundary while the river sounded beyond. The fairies belong to local story, not fact, yet they remind us that ordinary places still invite imagination.

Situated on a slight rise on the left bank of the Bonet River with a NE-SW section of the stream c. 30m tot he NW. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (dims 47m ENE-WSW; 42m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at E; 1.1m at W and 1.4m at N) with some bushes and an outer band of rushes (Wth 2-3m). There is an entrance ramp (Wth 2.8m) at NE. 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

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