What is recorded here
In pasture, on an E-facing slope overlooking Loughymeenaghan. A raised oval area (int. diam. 26m x 19.5m) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 1m) along the W arc where it functions as a field boundary. The bank is poorly preserved elsewhere and quarried into at S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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