What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Leitrim North is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on the east-facing slope of a low ridge as a slightly raised oval area measuring about twenty-seven metres north-south and thirty-eight metres east-west. A silted-up fosse four point two metres wide and a gapped counterscarp bank one point eight metres wide remain evident to the east-south-west, while a well sits immediately outside the field boundary at the north-east.

In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a low ridge. A slightly raised oval area (c. 27m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and truncated N-NE by a field boundary. A silted-up fosse (Wth 4.2m) and a gapped counterscarp bank (Wth 1.8m; ext. H 0.3m) are evident E-SSW. The interior slopes slightly down to SE. There is a well immediately outside the field boundary at NE The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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