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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clooskirt is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooskirt, County Sligo, Ireland. It stands in pasture on top of a ridge as a roughly circular area thirty-two metres wide with a one-point-two-metre scarp. A field boundary and trackway cut the interior at the southwest, while slight traces of a three-metre external fosse remain visible from the northwest to the northeast.

In pasture, on top of a ridge. A roughly circular area (diam. 32m) defined by a scarp (H 1.2m) W-SSE. The interior is truncated by a field boundary and trackway at SW. Slight traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m) are evident NW-NNE. An arc of a possible second fosse NW-SE visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 291-0) c. 10m outside the inner fosse, is not visible at ground level. 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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