What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballydawley is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballydawley, County Sligo, Ireland. The circular cashel measures thirty metres across and retains a two-metre-wide wall rising half a metre above the ground. Dense overgrowth now covers the structure on its pasture rise. A 1979 inspection recorded a shallow depression in the north-east quadrant and loose stones across the interior surface.

In pasture, on the top of a rise. A circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by a stone wall (T 2m; H 0.5m). The cashel is densely covered with overgrowth. During a previous site inspection in 1979 it was recorded that the interior was covered with overgrowth and that there was a large shallow depression in the NE quadrant and loose stones visible on the surface (SMR (1989) file). 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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