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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Falnashammer

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Falnashammer is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Falnashammer, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies low-lying, undulating pasture and preserves a circular area twenty-one metres wide. Heavily eroded earthen remains enclose the site, though a modern house, garden wall and trackway now cut across parts of the bank. The SE interior is disturbed, while the faint curve of the bank remains evident along the SW-W edge.
In low-lying, undulating pasture. A circular area (diam. 21m E-W) enclosed by the heavily eroded remains of an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) W-NE. A modern house and a garden wall are built across the curve of the bank on the E arc and an E-W trackway cuts across the curve of the bank on the S arc. The faint curve of the bank is evident SW-W. The SE half of the interior is heavily disturbed. 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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