What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rosses Upper is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rosses Upper, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a flat-topped rise in undulating rocky pasture where natural ground slopes down steeply outside the site. A roughly circular area measuring 26 metres east-west and 25 metres north-south is enclosed by a low earth and stone bank. Thick limestone slabs revet the internal sides on the north and southeast, while a drystone field wall crosses the south interior.

Situated on a flat-topped rise in undulating rocky pasture. Natural ground level slopes down steeply c.6m outside the site SW-E. Roughly circular area (dims. 26m E-W; 25m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.6m; H 0.5m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The bank is best preserved N-SE where the internal sides are revetted with thick limestone slabs laid on edge. From SE-N the revetting is absent and the bank is very denuded. A WNW-ESE orientated drystone field wall crosses the S side of the interior intersecting with the bank of the rath at WSW and at SE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

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