What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynaraw South is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballynaraw South, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies flat poorly drained pasture as a raised circular area about twenty-five metres across, bounded partly by a one-and-a-half-metre scarp and partly by a faint levelled bank. A shallow external ditch survives at the south edge, while a drain cuts across the interior from north-northwest to south-southeast. Two other raths lie eighty and two hundred sixty metres to the southwest.

In flat poorly drained pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp (H 1.6m) S-N and by a trace of a levelled bank N-S. A short section of an external fosse (Wth 9.4m; D c. 0.15m) is evident at S. A NNW-SSE drain cuts across the interior. Two other raths (SL038-072---- and SL038-073----) are c. 80m and c. 260m to SW, respectively. 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynaraw South is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with the faé or other supernatural beings, reflecting their common Irish folklore as dwellings of the "good people."

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