What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clooncunny (leyny By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooncunny (leyny By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a raised circular area on a bog-island in pasture, measuring twenty-eight metres north-south. A flat-topped earthen bank defines the southern and western arcs, while a scarp marks the remainder. Cattle have poached the surface, and a possible man-made underground passage remains in the interior.
In pasture, on the top of a bog-island. A raised circular area (28m N-S) defined by a flat-topped, earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) along the S and W arcs and by a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. The surface of the rath is poached by cattle. There is a possible Man-made underground passage (SL032-113002-) in 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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