What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockadoo (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockadoo (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a steep-sided ridge in pasture, where a raised circular area measures twenty-eight metres across. An earthen bank with gaps and a two-metre scarp enclose the space, while a possible one-and-a-half-metre entrance appears in the eastern bank. Overgrowth now covers the perimeter and northern interior, leaving the southern half sloping steeply downward.

In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a steep-sided ridge. A raised circular area (int. diam. 28m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 1.7m; ext. H 1.3m) NW-SE with numerous gaps and by a scarp (H 2m) SE-NW. A field boundary curves around N perimeter of the rath. The interior slopes steeply down to S. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at E. The perimeter and the N half of the interior are covered with overgrowth. 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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