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 the summit of a narrow ridge in rough grazing. A 37-metre-east-west circular area sits inside a 6.6-metre-wide earthen and stone bank that rises 1.2 metres internally and 2 metres externally. A 4-metre-wide, 1.2-metre-deep ditch runs outside the bank, with a possible 1.5-metre-wide counterscarp beside it from southeast to northeast.

In rough grazing, on the summit of a narrow ridge. A raised circular area (37m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank (Wth 6.6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2m) is of earth and stone with possible internal stone facing or kerbing. There is a gap (Wth c. 2.5m) in the bank at SE. The fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 1.2m) is truncated by a field boundary at E and skirted by a possible counterscarp bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.5m) SE-NE. A N-S field boundary abuts the bank at N. Some rushes grow in the interior. In 1836 it was recorded as 'Tunnagh Fort' (OSNB vol. 1, 128). 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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