What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knocklough is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knocklough, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on a drumlin and appears on the 1914 map as an oval area measuring about 40 metres northeast to southwest and 30 metres northwest to southeast. Two earthen banks and a wide fosse remain on the west and northeast, while field boundaries cut through the interior and truncate the northeast perimeter. The southern half has been levelled, leaving a northern entrance between the banks.

In pasture, on top of a drumlin. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as an oval area (c. 40m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a bank and fosse W-NE and by a scarp elsewhere with an E-W field boundary crossing the interior and a N-S field boundary truncating the NE perimeter. Remains consist of two arcs of earthen banks (inner bank: int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.7m; outer bank: int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.05m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 5.9m) W-NE. The S half of the rath has been levelled. The entrance (Wth 1.8m inner bank; Wth 1.9m outer bank) is at N. 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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