What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bunnacranagh is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bunnacranagh, County Sligo, Ireland. The raised circular area measures 35.5 metres across and contains two earthen banks separated by a flat-bottomed fosse. A causewayed entrance opens at the east-northeast, while a man-made underground passage remains inside the structure. Field boundaries frame the east, south and south-northeast edges of the grassland site.

In level grassland, which slopes steeply down to S from the S edge of the rath. A raised circular area (35.5m N-S; 35.5m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse, which in turn is framed by a linear field boundary to E and S and by a concentric field boundary S-NE. The inner bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.8m) is evident all round. The intervening flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 6.5m) is evident all round except at SE. The base of the fosse is mainly 0.3m below the external ground level except at the S where the ground falls away sharply from the edge of rath. An outer bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) survives in parts, with the outer face truncated along the E arc by a N-S field boundary. There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 3m) at ENE. There is a Man-made underground passage (SL042-021002-) in the interior. 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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