What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Toberbride is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Toberbride, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies elevated pasture above a stream 150m south, forming a 34m by 32m circle around a 6m wide bank and 5m wide external ditch. The bank stands 2.6m high outside but only 0.4m inside, with stone protruding through the sod on its north-eastern face. A 3m entrance at south-east crosses the ditch, while hawthorn bushes ring the perimeter and a farmyard sits immediately east.

In elevated pasture; the ground slopes gently down towards a stream c. 150m to S. A raised circular area (34m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 2.6m) with an external fosse (Wth c. 5m; D 0.8m). The bank has a high, well-defined external face but a low, slumped internal rim and is best defined N-SE where much stone protrudes from the sod on the internal face. The fosse is clearly visible SSW-NW as a broad flat-bottomed shallow depression but is infilled elsewhere. A farm track to N, an area of surface disturbance and overgrowth to E, and a small plantation of conifers at SE impinge on the line of the infilled fosse. The interior slopes down gently to S. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at SSE with a possible ramp or causeway across the fosse. The perimeter is ringed with hawthorn bushes. There is a farmyard immediately to E. Another rath (SL026-062----) lies c. 100m to W. 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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