What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost fort on a Leitrim knoll, reduced to a fifteen-metre wall fragment beside Lough Melvin. The surrounding earth has swallowed its shape, leaving only a narrow stone ribbon to mark where human hands once bent the landscape. It is a quiet warning that memory itself can erode, preserving just enough edge to prove the rest is gone.

Located on a knoll in an undulating landscape c. 650m from the S shore of Lough Melvin. A fragment of a wall-footing (Wth 1.3m; H 0.2m-0.4m) survives N-SSE (Chord c. 15m) at the summit of a rush-covered area from what was known locally as a fort, but the perimeter cannot be traced elsewhere. Archaeological testing (18E0535) for a water-pipe on the farm-lane immediately to the W demonstrated that the road had been excavated into the subsoil and there were no archaeological features remaining (Halpin 2018). 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 Amended: 10 January 2020

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