What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lugnadeffa is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Lugnadeffa, County Sligo, Ireland. The roughly circular earthwork sits on a steep northeast-facing hillside within young coniferous trees and scrub. Its earthen bank is two point two metres wide and zero point seven metres high, enclosing an area about twenty by eighteen metres. Dense vegetation now covers the rath.
On a steep NE-facing hillside in rough mountainous terrain, within a plantation of young coniferous trees interspersed with scrub. A roughly circular area (int. diam. c. 20m x 18m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; H 0.7m). The rath is densely overgrown.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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