What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrickglass is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrickglass, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies undulating pasture on a steep slope as a roughly circular raised area about thirty metres across. An earth and stone bank one and a half metres wide encloses the sloping interior, while dense overgrowth now covers the rath. Another rath and a portal tomb lie nearby to the northwest.

In undulating pasture, on top of a steep slope. A roughly circular raised area (diam. c. 30m), with a sloping interior, enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.5m). The rath is densely covered with overgrowth. There is another rath (SL034-153----) adjacent to NW and a portal tomb (SL034-152----) c. 80m to NW. 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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