What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonagashel is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonagashel, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies undulating pasture on a south-facing slope, forming a twenty-metre circular area enclosed by a three-metre earthen bank and external fosse. A five-metre eastern entrance crosses the fosse by causeway, while two other raths and a field system remain within three hundred metres to the north and northwest.

In undulating pasture, on a S-facing slope. A circular area (int. diam. 20m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H 1.8m) with an external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.8m). There is an entrance (Wth 5m) at E with a causeway across the fosse. A circular enclosure (SL033-077001-) and a rath (SL033-077002-) lie c. 100m to NW and a second rath (SL033-076----) is c. 250m to NW. A field system (SL033-075001-) lies immediately to N. 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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