What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ardvarney is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ardvarney, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies pasture on a rise with northern views and appears on the 1838 map as a thirty-metre embanked circle. It measures eighteen metres across today because a two-metre-wide bank stands only five centimetres high around an undulating interior.

In pasture, on a rise with good views to N. This possible rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m) and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a hachured arc S-N. The possible rath is levelled and only visible at ground level as a circular area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a very slight bank (Wth 2m; H 0.05m). The interior is undulating. 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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