What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrownloughan is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrownloughan, County Sligo, Ireland. The 29-metre circular area sits on a narrow ridge top in rough pasture, where an earthen bank forms part of a field boundary and thistles grow inside. Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman, Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy documented the site in the Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo.

In rough pasture, on the narrow level top of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 29m) defined S-N by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth c. 4.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.45m) and by a scarp elsewhere. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary NW-N. There are thistles growing 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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