What is recorded here

Hilltop enclosure in Sheemore is an ancient stone-ringed plateau on the summit of Sheemore Hill in County Leitrim, Ireland. Its faint bank still marks a wide oval around buried cairns, suggesting people once set that hill apart for ceremony, memory or shared use before fields and later walls crossed it. The stones have weakened, but the shape remains clear enough to imagine: a high place made sacred by exclusion, where ordinary traffic stopped and attention turned inward.

Located on the summit plateau of Sheemore Hill. This is a grass-covered oval area (dims c. 180m NE-SW; c. 110m NW-SE) defined by a slight stone bank, best preserved at S (Wth 0.9m; H 0.55m) and visible intermittently around the perimeter of the plateau. It encloses the cairns (LE027-054001-; LE027-054002-; LE027-054003-) and appears to be overlain by the field system (LE027-054005-) and the associated enclosure (LE027-054004-). 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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