What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Kilmacteige is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Kilmacteige, County Sligo, Ireland. The oval cashel sits on a south-facing slope of the Ox Mountains, measuring thirty metres northeast-southwest and twenty-one metres northwest-southeast. Drystone wall foundations line the southern and southeastern edges, while hawthorn, blackthorn and brambles now fill the interior. Another cashel lies eighty metres to the west.

On a S-facing slope of the Ox Mountains. An oval area (diam. 30m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) terraced into the slope with the N half 2.2m below and the S half up to 2m above the external ground level. Foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 0.6m), topped by a field boundary wall, are evident at the edge of the interior along the S and SE arcs. The cashel is densely overgrown with hawthorn and blackthorn bushes and brambles. Another cashel (SL036-014001-) lies c. 80m to W. 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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