That conclusion turned out to be wrong. The enclosure at Scardaun sits on the northern shoulder of a drumlin ridge, one of those elongated glacial hills that ripple across the Leitrim landscape, and it has quietly persisted beneath reclaimed pasture while the record briefly suggested otherwise.

When the site was recorded in 1983, surveyors noted a roughly circular area measuring approximately 38 metres east to west and 36 metres north to south, defined by the remains of an earthen bank with traces of an outer fosse. A fosse is simply a defensive ditch, typically dug to complement the bank thrown up beside it, and together they form the characteristic boundary of a ringfort, the type of enclosed farmstead built in Ireland predominantly during the early medieval period. By the time Michael J. Moore published his Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim in 2003, the monument was listed as no longer extant, suggesting it had been lost to agricultural improvement or simply overlooked. Satellite imagery from 2013, however, told a different story: a circular grass-covered enclosure, defined by an earthen bank and a hedge, was still visible on the ground, its outline largely intact despite the surrounding land having been worked into pasture over the intervening decades.

What makes this site quietly interesting is less any single dramatic feature and more the small gap between assumption and reality. Monuments of this kind are frequently lost to land drainage and pasture improvement, and it is easy to see why one might be written off prematurely. At Scardaun, the ridge topography appears to have given it some protection, and the enclosure endures, unremarked on any heritage trail, sitting on a drumlin shoulder in the north of Leitrim.