What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Dromore (tirerrill By., Kilmactranny Ed) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Dromore (tirerrill By., Kilmactranny Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a north-facing pasture slope and preserves a roughly circular interior measuring twenty point nine by eighteen metres. An earthen bank three point three metres wide and one point two five metres high on the outside surrounds the site, while an external fosse two point eight metres wide and point seven metre deep cuts across the southwest entrance. A possible causeway spans this fosse at the two-metre-wide opening.

In pasture, on a N-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 20.9m x 18m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.25m) and an external fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.7m). The entrance (Wth 2m), with a possible causeway across the fosse, is at SW. The interior is sloping. 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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