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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tullymoy is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tullymoy, County Sligo, Ireland. The semicircular remains stretch 33 metres from northeast to southwest on a broad level hilltop. A 1.1-metre-high scarp and a 5.5-metre-wide flat-bottomed ditch mark one side, while a gapped external bank 4.5 metres wide stands outside them. Hawthorn bushes now cover the interior, and no enclosing features remain visible on the opposite side where the site merges into the pasture.

In pasture, on a broad level hilltop with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map by an arc of hachures W-NNE. The present remains consist of a semicircular area (33m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.1m) SSW-NE with a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5.5m) and a gapped external bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.8m) WSW-NE. No trace of the enclosing elements are visible NE-SSW where the interior merges with the surrounding field. The interior is generally level though there is a slight slope to SSW in the S half. The rath is densely overgrown with hawthorn bushes. A NW-SE field boundary may incorporate a short section of the external bank at SW. 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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