What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinvoher (corran By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballinvoher (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a circular area with an 18.5m internal diameter on a steep south-facing drumlin slope within coppiced woodland. An earthen bank surrounds the space, though it becomes very low along the eastern arc and transforms into a field boundary along the north-eastern section. Another rath sits approximately 30m to the southeast.

In coppiced woodland, on the steep S-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 18.5m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m) which is very low along the E arc and is replaced by a NW-SE field boundary along the NNE arc. There is another rath (SL033-158001-) c. 30m to SE. 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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