What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Magheralackagh is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Magheralackagh, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a forested, east-facing ridge slope immediately north of the Drumbeg South boundary. The earthwork is no longer visible at ground level, although a 1914 survey marked a circular embanked area about 25 metres across. A field boundary cut through its northwest arc, and an 1836 account mistakenly placed one of two local forts in Drumbeg South.

In a forest, on the E-facing slope of a ridge immediately N of the townland boundary between Magheralackagh and Drumbeg South. This possible rath is not visible at ground level. It was indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked area (diam. c. 25m) truncated along the NW arc by a field boundary. It is probably one of the two forts (see SL035-092----) recorded (in this case mistakenly) in 1836 in the NW end of Drumbeg South (OSNB vol. 2, 198). 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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