What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumcolumb is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumcolumb, County Sligo, Ireland. The circular area measures twenty metres across and occupies pasture on a ridge. A four-metre-wide earthen bank rises along the southern arc, while a three-metre band of rushes marks a possible external fosse. Another rath lies fifty metres to the south in the same field.

In pasture, on top of a ridge. A circular area (diam. 20m) defined along the S arc by an earthen bank evident as a low rise (Wth 4m; ext. H 0.8m). A band of rushes (Wth 3m) may indicate the line of a silted-up external fosse. The rath is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 290-89) with a differential growth pattern indicating a bank on the S arc and an external fosse all round. There is another rath (SL027-142002-) in same field c. 50m to S. 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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