What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Coolbeg is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Coolbeg, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a narrow rise in wet pasture and consists of a roughly circular earth bank measuring seventy metres east-west and sixty-eight metres north-south. A wide flat-bottomed ditch runs along the external base, though soil has filled much of the southern section. The original entrance has disappeared, leaving only a narrow livestock track through the eastern bank for modern access.

Straddling a narrow WNW-ESE orientated elongated rise in gently undulating wet pasture. Raised roughly circular area (dims. 70m E-W; 68m N-S) enclosed by a low broad bank of earth (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.6m). At the external base of the bank is wide flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.5m; D 0.4m). The bank is best preserved from N-S being barely visible elsewhere. From SSE-N the fosse is in-filled and barely visible. The original entrance is not recognisable. A livestock track (Wth 1.4m) through the bank at E allows access at present. The interior of the site, although raised, reflects the underlying natural slopes with the N one-quarter sloping slightly facing NNE and the S half sloping slightly facing SSW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

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