Cashelbadeen, fairy fort or stone ringfort in County Sligo

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What is recorded here

Situated on a slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 32m) enclosed by an un-coursed rubble limestone wall (T 0.8m; H 1.5m). The wall appears to have been reconstructed in recent times and encloses the site E-SW with only the footings of the cashel wall surviving SW-E. Original entrance not recognisable.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL005-063

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