What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tunnagh (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tunnagh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough grazing on a ridge top. A raised circular area about 25 metres across contains grass. A 0.7 metre scarp borders the south and northwest, while a field boundary with a northern gap completes the circle beneath dense overgrowth.
In rough grazing, on top of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m) S-NW and by a field boundary, covered with dense overgrowth, elsewhere. The interior is grass-covered. There is a gap in the field boundary at N.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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