What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonagh (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonagh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a south-facing slope just below a ridge summit, forming a twenty-one-metre circular area with a zero-point-eight-metre scarp. The interior descends toward the south, while a field boundary and drain pass along its north-northwest to north-northeast edge.
On a S-facing slope, just below the summit of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 21m) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m). The interior slopes down to S. A field boundary and a drain skirt the rath NNW-NNE.
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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