What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonlurg is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonlurg, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies rough pasture on a ridge in the south corner of a field. A slightly raised circular area measures twenty-nine metres across and keeps a one-metre scarp with remains of a two-metre earthen bank along the southwest arc. A northeast-southwest trackway and a northwest-southeast field boundary cut into the structure, while hawthorn bushes and scrub now cover much of the ground.

In rough pasture, on top of a ridge in the S corner of a field. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 29m) defined by a scarp (H 1m) with remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7m) along the SW arc. The rath is truncated by a NE-SW trackway at SE and by a NW-SE field boundary at SW. It is overgrown with hawthorn bushes and scrub. 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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