What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rathmoney is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rathmoney, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies poor pasture on a ridge, forming a circular area about twenty-three metres across that overgrowth now covers. An earth and stone bank three-point-four metres wide and one-point-four metres high encloses the space, while an external fosse three metres wide borders the outside. Another rath lies ten metres to the east.
In poor pasture, on a ridge. A circular area (diam. c. 23m N-S), covered with overgrowth, enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.4m; H 1.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 3m). Another rath (SL021-075----) lies c. 10m to E.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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