What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bunnamuck is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bunnamuck, County Sligo, Ireland. It sits on a drumlin and contains a concave circular area measuring twenty-three point eight to twenty-six metres across. An earthen bank surrounds the space, while a wide external fosse cuts along the south, west and north arcs and a scarp rises along the east arc. A western entrance provides access, and earthen field boundaries extend outward from the bank at both the east and west ends.

On top of a drumlin. A raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 23.8m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) and a wide external fosse (Wth 5.2m; D 0.4m) along the S, W and N arcs and by a scarp (H 1.2m) along the E arc. There is an entrance (Wth 2.3m) at W. The interior is concave. Earthen field boundaries extend out from the bank at E and W. 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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