What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Cartronhugh is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Cartronhugh, County Sligo, Ireland. The circular area measures about twenty metres across and retains remnants of a low stone wall one point zero five metres wide and fifteen centimetres high. Two field boundaries touch the southwest edge while another crosses the western interior, and dense overgrowth now covers the structure in poor undulating pasture.
In poor undulating pasture. A circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by the remnants of a low stone wall (Wth 1.05m; H 0.15m). Two field boundaries abut the cashel at SW and another (on a N-S axis) crosses the W half of the interior. The cashel is densely covered with overgrowth.
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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