What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyfahy is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyfahy, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on an east-facing slope near the base of a drumlin. A two-point-two-metre-wide earthen bank defines a circular area twenty-two to twenty-four metres across, although a field boundary and trackway cut through the northwest section.

In pasture, on an E-facing slope near the base of a drumlin. The remains of a circular area (int. diam. 22m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) except at NW where it is truncated by a field boundary and trackway. 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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