What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Montiagh is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Montiagh, County Sligo, Ireland. The levelled rath occupies a gentle northeast-facing pasture slope, where a grass-covered circular area measuring about twenty-one metres across rises slightly above the surrounding ground. Survey maps from 1838 and 1911 show the embanked enclosure and later record its northwest arc as part of a field boundary.

In pasture, on a gentle NE-facing slope. This rath has been levelled and the remains consist of a grass-covered circular area (int. diam. c. 21m) raised 0.2-1m above the surrounding ground level. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a slightly oval embanked enclosure and on the 1911 OS 6-inch map as a circular raised area with the NW arc incorporated into a field boundary. 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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