What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilmacteige is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Kilmacteige, County Sligo, Ireland. The surviving northwest quadrant of a twenty-metre rath sits on a gentle south-facing slope, where an eighty-centimetre scarp abuts a straight garden hedge to form a D-shaped raised area. A flat-bottomed waterlogged fosse four and a half metres wide runs along the base of the scarp, preserving the boundary of the ancient earthwork.

On a gentle S-facing slope. An arc of scarp (H 0.8m) SW-NE abuts a straight garden hedge at SE, to form a D-shaped raised area (dims. 9m NW-SE; straight side L 25m NE-SW). There is an external flat-bottomed waterlogged fosse (Wth 4.5m; D c. 0.3m) at the base of the scarp. The remains are that of the NW quadrant of a rath (diam. c. 20m) which is visible in an aerial photograph (GSIAP, G 233-2). 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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