What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Drumaskibbole is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Drumaskibbole, County Sligo, Ireland. The circular stone enclosure sits on a ridge above Knocknarea and the Ox Mountains, with a narrow trackway crossing its centre. Field walls have merged into its western and southern edges, while hazel and holly trees mark its boundary.

Straddling the narrow top of a ridge in undulating pasture with views onto Knocknarea, the Dartry Plateau and the Ox Mountains. A circular area (int. diam. 20.50m) enclosed by a wall (Wth c. 1.8m; H 0.4-0.6m) with a rubble core and remnants inner and outer facing. On the W side the enclosing wall has been incorporated into a later N–S field boundary, and a field wall also merges with the S edge of the enclosure. The entrance may have been in the SE, but is not clearly defined. A slightly sunken trackway (Wth 1.4m) flanked by walls (Wth 0.7m; H 0.55m), now ruined, cuts through the centre of interior on a N-S axis. Hazel and holly trees ring the perimeter, and hazel trees grow in the interior. Attached images: SL020-122----_01.JPG viewed from NE SL020-122----_02.JPG viewed from E SL020-122----_03.JPG trackway cutting through interior Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 June 2023

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