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 ridge slope and preserves an oval earth and stone bank that a field boundary cuts at the east. A band of rushes along the southwest and north may mark the line of an infilled external fosse.

In rough poorly drained pasture, on the NE-facing slope of a ridge. An oval area (24m N-S; 15m E-W) enclosed by the remains of an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m) which is truncated by a field boundary at E. A band of rushes (Wth 2.5m) evident SW-N may indicate the line of an infilled external fosse. 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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