What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lavally (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lavally (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies low-lying rough grazing between two ridges and preserves a thirty-five-metre circular area bounded by two earthen banks and a central ditch. The inner bank is mostly eroded except for a slight lip on the south-west, while the ditch and outer bank remain visible only from east-south-east to west. A possible eight-metre entrance faces east, and another rath lies eighty metres to the north-west.

In poorly drained rough grazing, on low-lying ground between two ridges. A circular area (diam. 35m) enclosed by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth c. 6.4m; ext. H 0.8m) is mostly eroded with a slight internal lip evident SE-WSW. The fosse (Wth 4.7m) and outer bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.6m) are evident only ESE-W. The interior slopes down to N. A possible entrance (Wth 8m) is at E. Another rath (SL021-092----) lies c. 80m to NW. 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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