What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knocknageeha (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knocknageeha (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies marshy ground at the top of a north-facing ridge and presents a circular area twenty-two metres across. Earthen banks, a stone-kerbed inner edge, a three-metre fosse and an outer bank define the shape, while a road cuts the southern arc and a possible eastern entrance remains visible. Rushes and irises now fill the boggy interior.

In marshy ground, at the top of the N-facing slope of a ridge. A circular area (diam. 22m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) with stone kerbing, an intervening fosse (Wth 3m) and an outer earthen bank (Wth 3m; ext. H 0.8m). The outer bank is truncated by a road along the S arc. A possible entrance (Wth 1.8m) is at E. The boggy interior is overgrown with rushes and irises. 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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