What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mountirvine is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mountirvine, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rolling pasture on a drumlin with a sharp fall of ground to the south. A low earthen bank defines a circular area thirty-eight metres wide, though the bank is levelled from the northwest to the east. A mound barrow lies twelve metres west and another rath sits one hundred and ten metres southwest.

In rolling pasture, on top of a drumlin, with a sharp fall of ground immediately to S. A circular area (diam. 38m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank E-NW, best preserved to SW and W; the bank has been levelled NW-E. The interior slopes gently down to E and a NW-SE field boundary crosses it. A mound barrow (SL039-113----) lies c. 12m to W and a rath (SL044-002----) c. 110m to SW. 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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