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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Creggyconnell

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Creggyconnell is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Creggyconnell, County Sligo, Ireland. The D-shaped cashel measures 17m on each side and stands on a slight SW-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. A 1.7m wide and 1.7m high drystone bank of rubble limestone encloses the site, with a curved section running NNE-SW and straightened sections raised from SW-NE and NW-NNE. The wall was reconstructed on all sides using an un-coursed facing of random rubble with a core of smaller rubble, but the original entrance is no longer recognisable.
Situated on a slight SW-facing slope in gently undulating pasture. Roughly D-shaped area (dims. 17m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a drystone bank of rubble limestone (Wth 1.7m; H 1.7m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The curved section of the wall encloses the site NNE-SW. The wall has been straightened off from SW-NE and from NW-NNE. The straightened sections of the wall have been raised (H 1.7m). The wall of the cashel has been reconstructed on all sides and consists of an un-coursed facing of random rubble with a core of smaller rubble. The original entrance is not recognisable. A modern stile is located midway along the straightened section of the wall at W. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

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