What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mullanashee is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mullanashee, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a pasture knoll where the ground falls north and rises south toward the Ox Mountains. Blackthorn bushes hide a thirty-metre raised area marked by a one-metre scarp. Tumbled drystone remains reach two metres at the southern edge.

In pasture, on top of a knoll; the ground falls away gradually to N and on S rises towards the N-facing slopes of the Ox Mountains. The rath is densely overgrown with blackthorn bushes and is almost inaccessible. A raised subcircular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a scarp (H c. 1m) which merges with the natural slope of the knoll. Remains of a drystone wall (max. H 2m at S), low and tumbled in places and built against the scarp/natural slope, encircles the base of the raised area. There is a possible Man-made underground passage (SL019-169002-) in 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mullanashee is a circular earthwork enclosure typical of early-medieval Ireland, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries. Local folklore may associate the site with fairy activity, as its name suggests, though specific traditions connected to this particular rath are not recorded.

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