What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Quarryfield is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Quarryfield, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on the east-facing slope of a drumlin and preserves two blocked openings into a man-made underground passage. The circular earthwork measures about twenty-eight to thirty metres across, while cattle traffic has worn the interior surface.

In pasture, on the E-facing slope of a drumlin. A circular area (28.5m N-S; 29.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.6m) SW-NE and by a scarp (H 1.4m) elsewhere. The bank is topped by an earthen field boundary (H 0.8m) along its outer edge. The interior, which slopes slightly down to E, has been poached by cattle. Two blocked-up openings into a Man-made underground passage (SL038-092002-) are visible in the SW quadrant. The W portion of the interior is cut into the hillslope and the E portion is raised c. 1.4m above external ground to compensate for the slope. 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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