What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moylough is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Moylough, County Sligo, Ireland. The raised circular area measures about twenty metres east to west and stands one point one metres high on a gentle south-facing slope in pasture. A field boundary cuts the northern scarp, a quarry takes the north-west quadrant, and a man-made underground passage occupies the northern half of the interior.

In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope and immediately S of a lane. A raised circular area (diam. c. 20m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m). The scarp is truncated by a field boundary at N. A quarry encroaches into the NW quadrant. There is a Man-made underground passage (SL038-109001-) in the N half of the interior. 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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