What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Graniamore is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Graniamore, County Sligo, Ireland. It stands in undulating pasture on a slight NW-facing slope where a 1992 inspection recorded an 18m by 16m rath with a 3m wide earthen bank and a northern entrance with a ramp. The site has since been levelled until no enclosing element remains visible at ground level, though a gorse-covered bank west of the rath still marks a field boundary shown on the 1941 map.

In undulating pasture, on a slight NW-facing slope. This rath has been levelled and no enclosing element is now visible at ground level. It was described during a previous inspection in 1992 (SMR (1989) file) as the remains of a rath (18m N-S; 16m E-W), with an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.6m), the N portion raised to compensate for the hillslope. The entrance (Wth 3m) with a ramp was in the N arc. A portion of a field boundary indicated to W of the rath on the 1941 OS 6-inch map survives as a gorse-covered earthen bank. 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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