What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynakill is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballynakill, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough grazing on a ridge summit where field boundaries cut across its eastern and southern edges. A twenty-four-metre circular area contains a dense rush interior, while an external fosse marked by similar growth remains visible along its southern and eastern sides.

In rough grazing, on the summit of a ridge with field boundaries immediately to E and S. A raised circular area (24m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) SE-NNE and truncated by linear field boundaries elsewhere. An external fosse (Wth 3-4m; D 0.2m), marked by a dense growth of rushes, is evident SSW-NE. The interior is densely overgrown with rushes. 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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