What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Cloonmacduff is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Cloonmacduff, County Sligo, Ireland. The oval site occupies rough rocky ground on a low steep-sided spur. Its collapsed stone wall forms a low grass-covered spread, while a short western stretch keeps inner and outer facing intact. A disused field boundary crosses the collapsed wall to the southeast and southwest.

In rough rocky ground on top of a low steep-sided spur. An oval area (int. diam. 20.7m E-W; 15.7m N-S) defined by the remains of a stone wall evident mostly as a low grass-covered stone spread (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m). At W, a 3m stretch of wall (Wth 0.65m) has inner and outer facing intact. There is a disused field boundary on top of the collapsed wall SE-SW. The interior is level. 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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