What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrigans Lower is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrigans Lower, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies undulating ground and forms a raised circular area with a seventeen-metre internal diameter. An earth and stone bank surrounds the space, reaching twenty-five centimetres in width and eighty to one hundred and eighty millimetres in height depending on the side. The interior remains concave in profile.
In undulating ground. A raised circular area (int. diam. 17m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m). The interior is concave in profile.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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