What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moylough is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moylough, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a gentle north-facing slope as a raised circular area about twenty-one and a half metres across with a half-metre scarp. A hollow near the centre may mark a man-made underground passage. The eighth-century Moylough belt shrine appeared in a turf bog two hundred and fifty metres east in 1945 and is now in the NMI.

On a gentle N-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 21.5m) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m). A fosse is indicated SSW-NNW on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map but is not now evident. The interior slopes down slightly to N. A hollow (3m x 3m; D 0.1m) immediately N of the centre of the interior may indicate a possible Man-made underground passage (SL038-112002-). The 8th-century Moylough belt shrine was found in a turf bog, c. 250m to E, in 1945 and is now in the NMI (Youngs 1989, 59). 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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