What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Toberroddy is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Toberroddy, County Sligo, Ireland. The semicircular site measures 29.2 metres across and joins another rath at its west-southwest edge. A 3.5-metre-wide earthen bank forms the southwest-to-north side, while a 0.9-metre scarp defines the north-to-east boundary. The interior slopes downward toward the south.

In pasture, on a steep S-facing slope. Conjoined with another rath (SL037-05901-) at WSW. A semicircular area (diam. 29.2m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8m) SW-N and sharing the bank of the conjoined rath along the SW arc; it is defined by a scarp (H c. 0.9m) N-E and levelled E-SW. The interior slopes down to S. Indicated as an embanked circular area on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as an arc of hachures W-NE on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. 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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