What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballygilgan is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballygilgan, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slight southeast-facing slope in gently undulating pasture, with a second cashel located sixty metres to the northwest. The slightly raised circular area measures twenty-one metres across and is enclosed by a rubble limestone bank three point seven metres wide and zero point three metres high internally. No fosse is visible at ground level, and the original entrance is not recognisable.
Situated on a slight SE-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. A second cashel
(SL008-015---) is located 60m to the NW. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a bank of rubble limestone (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.3m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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