What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ardrea is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ardrea, County Sligo, Ireland. The earthworks stand on a drumlin in pasture and enclose a circular area twenty-five metres wide. An earthen bank and external fosse surround the site, while a one-metre eastern entrance crosses the fosse by a causeway. A north-south field boundary now divides the damp interior.

In pasture, on top of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.6m). There is an entrance (Wth 1m) at E with causeway across the fosse. The damp interior is divided by a N-S field boundary. 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 fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ardrea is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folk, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in their supernatural inhabitants.

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