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The Leitrim Fort Group will hold a number of events between April and March celebrating ring forts and archaeology in Leitrim and is asking locals to get involved.
The project starts on the 3rd of April with a visit to a ring fort in Kiltoghert that has had a geophysical survey conducted on it by Susan Curran, a senior archaeologist, who will then deliver her findings at a free event at the Dock Theatre in Carrick-on-Shannon later that evening, from 2 pm to 5 pm.
“Ring forts are the most numerous archaeological artifact found in Ireland, and it is the only domestic monument that survives in significant numbers,” says John Flynn, a member of the Leitrim Fort Group who is running the project.
Ring forts were sites of stone settlements that were built during the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and early Middle Ages, up to about the year 1000 AD, and dotted the ancient Irish countryside, acting as a domestic homestead for farmers.
The ruins of the sites can be found across Ireland, with over 1,000 recorded in Leitrim alone, according to Flynn.
Ring forts, also known as fairy forts, are steeped in superstitions, with many believing you should never tamper with them—unless you’re looking for trouble.
The group will work with Burren Beo, an archaeology group from Clare, to run a survey of forts in the county on May 1st, which will involve visits to the farms of those who wish to be involved, to photograph and record their ring forts. The group is asking farmers who have forts on their land to consider getting involved.
“We want to reach out to farmers who have these sites on their land, and some of them may be enclosed with timber or hedges, but there might be some that are visible and accessible.”
“The idea was that we would bring attention to them, and by the fact of the farmer becoming involved or letting us know, they could make contact so that they could be included in this celebratory time of forts in Leitrim.”
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