What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Rathdoony More is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Rathdoony More, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a gentle NNE-facing pasture slope as a raised oval area measuring 18m north-south and 14m east-west. Grass-covered stone footings define the SSE-NW edge while a 1.75m rocky scarp bounds the rest. The northern interior rises to compensate for the hillslope and contains undulating grass-covered rocks.

In pasture, on a gentle NNE-facing slope. A raised oval area (18m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by the footings of a stone wall (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.25; Wth at top 1.2m) SSE-NW and by a rocky scarp (H 1.75m) elsewhere. The footings of the wall are now grass covered and difficult to distinguish because of the generally rocky nature of the site. The N half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope. The interior is undulating due to the presence of grass-covered rocks, clear of overgrowth and slopes gently down to NNE. The interior is said to have been used as a children's burial ground (SL033-045001-). One of four forts (see SL033-087001-; SL033-188001- and SL033-188002-) referred to in this townland in 1836 (OSNB vol. 1, 404-5). 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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