What is recorded here
Fairy fort / ringfort in Doonally (carbury By., Calry Ed),willowbrook is a fairy fort or ringfort in Doonally (carbury By., Calry Ed),willowbrook, County Sligo, Ireland. The D-shaped enclosure measured about twenty-one metres along its straight southwest edge and twenty-two metres across its curved northeast section. It sat on a slight north-facing slope in gently undulating pasture before the site was levelled and all surface traces disappeared.
Situated on slight N-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Depicted as a D-shaped enclosure whose linear side (L. c.21m) at SW forms part of the boundary between Willowbrook and Doonally townlands on the 1837 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The curvilinear portion (max. dim. c.22m) is shown to the NE of this in Willowbrook townland. On the 1912 this part of the enclosure is hachured. The site has been levelled and there are no visible surface trace at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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