What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballyara OR Falduff is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballyara OR Falduff, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a pasture on the south-facing slope of a rise. A grass-covered collapsed drystone wall encloses a circular area twenty-six and a half metres across. The wall measures five point seven metres wide, rises one point two five metres externally and stands three decimetres internally.
In pasture, on the S-facing slope of a rise. A circular area (diam. 26.5m) enclosed by a grass-covered collapsed drystone wall (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m). The S half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope while the N half is cut into the upslope.
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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