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 rough pasture on a low ridge and contains a slightly raised circular area twenty-seven metres wide. An earthen bank eighty-five centimetres thick and one to one point seven metres high encloses the space, while an external fosse one point one metres deep runs beside it. Rushes grow in the shallow southwest section of the ditch, and traces of stone kerbing appear on the inner face of the bank.

In rough pasture, on a low ridge. A slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 27m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 8.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.7m) and an external fosse. Traces of stone kerbing occur on the inner face of the bank. The fosse (D 1.1m), shallow along SW arc, has rushes growing in it. Numerous gaps occur in the bank, the largest (Wth 3.6m) of which is at SW with a possible ramp extending into the fosse. A field boundary skirts the fosse along the E and SE arcs. 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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