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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Primrosegrange

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Primrosegrange is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Primrosegrange, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the summit of a steep-sided, oval-shaped knoll in hilly pasture. A low stone wall defines a roughly oval area measuring 21 metres east-west and 15 metres north-south, with an internal arc curving from south to northeast. An L-shaped sunken depression in the northern half may be a collapsed man-made underground passage.
In hilly pasture, located the summit of on a steep-sided, oval-shaped knoll. Roughly oval area (int. dim. 21m E–W; 15m N–S) defined by a low stone wall (Wth 1.3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.25m) which is best defined S–W. An arc of wall (L c. 7.5m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.2m) bisects the centre of the interior, curving from S-NE. In the N half of the interior there is an L-Shaped sunken depression (L 8.5m; max. Wth 2.5m; D c. 0.5m) which may be a collapsed Man-made underground passage (SL020-008004-). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 April 2014

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