What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonshanbally is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonshanbally, County Sligo, Ireland. The levelled site sits on a ridge in pasture and appears only in an aerial photograph as a cropmark surrounding a circular area about thirty metres wide. Another circular enclosure lies forty metres to the south west in the adjoining field.

In pasture, on top of a ridge close to a break of slope at NE. This possible rath has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. It is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 222-1) as a cropmark of a bank surrounding a circular area (diam. c. 30m). A circular enclosure (SL039-130----) is c. 40m to SSW in the adjoining field. 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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