What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghoge Upper is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloghoge Upper, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a low rise in rough undulating pasture at the base of a northeast-facing slope. The structure forms a twenty-two-metre circular area bounded by remaining earthen banks on the north and northeast, a steep scarp elsewhere, and stone facing along the western edge.
In rough undulating pasture, on a low rise at the base of a NE-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. 22m) defined by the low remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) along the N and NE arcs and by a scarp (H 1.8m) elsewhere. There are remains of stone facing along the scarp at 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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