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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ardcurley

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ardcurley is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ardcurley, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a low rise in pasture about seventy metres west of the Unshin River. A roughly circular area measuring thirty to thirty-two metres across remains enclosed by a partially levelled earthen bank and a short external fosse visible only to the southwest.
In pasture, on a low rise c. 70m W of the Unshin River. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 32m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) enclosed by the remains of an earthen bank and a short section of an external fosse. The bank is levelled N-E where the interior is truncated by a drain. Elsewhere the bank (int. H 0.3m) is poorly defined and slopes to the exterior for c. 3.5m. The fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.6m) is evident only S-W. 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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