Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moylough

In pasture, on a slight SSE-facing slope and immediately N of a road. A slightly raised oval area (c. 30m N-S; c. 23m E-W) defined by an eroded gapped earthen bank (Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) NW-SE and by a scarp (H 1.05m) with a slight internal lip SE-S. The bank is truncated by a field boundary SW-NW. The external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.45m) is well-defined NW-NE, gradually peters out NE-E, is evident only as a shallow depression at SE and is barely perceptible at S. The interior is densely covered with overgrowth. A scarp (H 0.5m) curving W-NE just S of centre marks a change in ground level and to S of this the interior is slightly lower with a soft and damp surface. The rath is densely overgrown with blackthorn and hawthorn bushes and brambles. 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