What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballybrennan is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballybrennan, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies undulating pasture on the edge of a shallow cliff scarp, where a western earthen bank marks a circular platform roughly thirty metres across. Its interior sits below the external ground level, and a quarry hole appears beside the structure on the 1944 map.

In undulating pasture, on the edge of a shallow cliff scarp. A portion of the W side of a circular area remains as an arc of an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m). The interior of the rath is lower than the external ground level. The rath is indicated on the 1944 OS 6-inch map as a circular platform (diam. c. 30m) with a quarry hole to W. The adjacent field boundaries have been removed. 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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