What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cartronroe (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cartronroe (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a ridge pasture with a thirty-metre circular area enclosed by a four-metre earthen bank. Large stones appear on the internal southeast face, while a two-metre band of rushes marks a fosse along the western and southern arcs. The boggy interior contains a possible northern hut site, and dense gorse covers the northeastern and eastern portions.

In pasture, on top of a ridge. A circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.1m) with large stones visible on the internal face at SE. A fosse is indicated by a band of rushes (Wth 2m) along the W and S arcs. The interior is boggy with a possible hut site (SL034-134001-) in the N half. The NE and E portions of the rath are densely overgrown with gorse. There is another rath (SL034-135----) c. 80m to E. 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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