What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonagashel is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonagashel, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a rock outcrop on a south-facing slope within pasture. A grass-covered bank two metres wide and one metre high externally encloses a circular area twenty-one metres across. A man-made underground passage cuts through the northern half of the interior.

In pasture, on top of a rock outcrop on a S-facing slope. A circular area (int. diam. 21m) enclosed by a grass-covered bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m). There is a Man-made underground passage (SL033-074002-) in the N half of 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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