What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen platform beside a drumlin ridge in County Leitrim, Ireland. Grass and rushes cover its broad surface while a flat-bottomed ditch and outer bank still mark its shape. People may have lived inside the ring or buried their dead there before field drains and hedges changed its edges. The chamber is no longer visible, but the circle remains clear enough to imagine the hands that shaped it.

Located just off the S end of a N-S drumlin ridge. This is a grass- and rush-covered circular earthen platform (diam. 39m E-W; 38.5m N-S; H 0.8m) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4-6.5m; Wth of base 2.8-3.5m) and an outer bank (Wth 3.8-4.7m; int. H 1-1.7m; ext. H 0.3m) with a hedge. The fosse is recut as a field drain E-S and the bank is adapted as a field bank N-E. There are many gaps in the bank but an original entrance is not identified. It may be a ringfort. 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

Neolithic circular earthen platform, c. 4000–2500 BCE, potentially a ceremonial or ritual site. Its construction and surrounding fosse suggest significance in early agrarian settlement or communal activity in the region.

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