What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tully (corran By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tully (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It encloses the top of a drumlin in pasture, forming a raised subcircular area 54 metres by 53 metres across. A poorly preserved earthen bank 1.8 metres wide, 0.2 metre high inside and 1.1 metres high outside, defines the edge except where the NE arc is gone and the W side is quarried into.
In pasture, enclosing the top of a drumlin. A raised subcircular area (int. diam. 54m x 53m) defined by a poorly preserved earthen bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m) except along the NE arc where the bank has been removed and at W where it has been quarried into.
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
This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- No visible remains or recorded as destroyed
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