What is recorded here

Doonanall Forts is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Emlagh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The surviving arc measures thirty metres across with a six metre wide bank rising one point four metres externally. A two metre deep quarry removed the remainder within six metres of the standing structure. Another rath lies five metres east while a man-made underground passage appears on the 1914 map in the south-west quadrant.

On a low rise of natural bedrock on a low ridge, immediately N of a stream. An arc (C c. 30m) of earth and stone bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) is evident along the N and E arcs. A quarry (D 2m) has removed the remainder of the rath to within 6m of the surviving bank. A Man-made underground passage (SL027-130002-) is indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map in the SW quadrant. Another rath (SL027-131----) lies c. 5m to E. 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

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