What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Lugnamackan is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Lugnamackan, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on a gentle south-facing slope. A collapsed stone wall encloses a roughly circular area twenty-four metres wide. The wall reaches three metres thick and one to three metres high.
In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 24m E-W) enclosed by a collapsed stone wall (T 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 3m on S downslope side). The entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at SE. The interior is 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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- What survives
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