What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Scardaun, County Leitrim, is an earthen ringfort set on a drumlin. It is not a mysterious fairy castle, though locals may have called it that. The measureable facts are a rounded grass area, an earthen bank, a shallow inner dip, a rushy outer ditch and a small pond at the south-west. People shaped or used that edge long before the fairy name reached it.

Situated on top of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 26m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.5m) and hedge S-W which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) elsewhere, and an external fosse indicated by a band of rushes (Wth 1.5m), which has been extended into a pond S-SW. The original entrance is not identified. The monument is slightly truncated by a laneway at SE, and field spoil has been added to the perimeter. 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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