What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Foyoges is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Foyoges, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on the west-facing slope of a drumlin, forming a roughly circular area twenty-eight by thirty metres across. A shallow scarp lines the western arc while an earthen bank surrounds the rest, enclosing a waterlogged interior now planted with trees.

In pasture, on the W-facing slope of a drumlin. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 28m x 30m) defined by a scarp (H 0.9m) along the W arc and by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) elsewhere. The interior is waterlogged. The rath is planted with trees. 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Foyoges is a roughly circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to the 5th–10th centuries AD. Local folklore associates such sites with the faé or supernatural beings, and they were often avoided or revered by rural communities.

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