What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Lugnamackan is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Lugnamackan, County Sligo, Ireland. It is a circular grass-covered area with a collapsed stone wall near the top of a gentle slope. Another cashel touches its southeast edge, and Wood-Martin mentioned it as one of three raths in a trefoil arrangement.

In pasture, near the top of a gentle S-facing slope and adjoining another cashel (SL020-197008-) to E. A circular area (int. diam. 18.8m N-S; 19.1m E-W) defined by a collapsed grass-covered stone wall (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m). The spread of the collapsed wall is widest (Wth 6m) SE-SW where it faces a natural scarp and narrowest (Wth 2.4m) at ESE where only a narrow fosse (Wth 0.6m) separates it from the bank of the adjoining cashel. There is a possible entrance (Wth 1m) at ESE. The interior is under pasture and slopes gently down to SE. Cultivation ridges, visible in an aerial photograph (CUCAP, BGM 35) taken in 1971, are not visible at ground level. A possible cashel (SL020-197009-) abuts the SE edge. Mentioned by Wood-Martin (1882, 21) as one of three raths in a 'trefoil arrangement'. 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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