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 undulating pasture on a north-facing slope, forming a slightly raised circular area twenty-one metres across. The site shows an earthen bank with internal stone facing along the east and southeast, while a boggy fosse surrounds the whole structure. Hawthorn bushes and scrub now cover the rath beside a north-south field boundary to the east.

In undulating pasture, on a N-facing slope. A slightly raised circular area (21m N-S) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m), with remains of internal stone facing, along the E and SE arc and by a scarp elsewhere. An external boggy fosse (Wth 6m; D 1m) is evident all round. The rath is overgrown with hawthorn bushes and scrub. A N-S field boundary lies to E. 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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