What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Doonsheheen is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Doonsheheen, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies rough pasture on the north-facing slope of a ridge. A nineteen-metre circular area contains an earthen bank, stone kerb remnants, a scarp, and an external fosse marked by rushes and irises. Hawthorn bushes now cover the perimeter.

In rough pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 19m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.3m) NE-NW, with remnants of a stone kerb along the base of the internal face and by a scarp (H 1m) NW-NE. The line of an external fosse is evident as boggy ground with a band (Wth 3.3m) of rushes and irises. The bank S-WNW is incorporated into a field boundary with an external recut fosse. The perimeter is overgrown with hawthorn bushes. 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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