What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Rue is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Rue, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the top of a low rise and preserves a circular stone wall, external ditch, partial earthen bank, southeast causeway entrance and a man-made underground passage in the northwest quadrant. The interior remains densely overgrown, while animal activity has disturbed the eastern half and a field boundary still curves around the northern arc.

On the top of a low rise. A circular area (int. diam. 32m) enclosed by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth c. 2.8m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 2.2m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 7m; D 1.2m). Remains of an earthen counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.6m) are evident SSE-NW. The entrance (Wth c. 3.5m) is at SE with a causeway across the fosse. The interior is densely covered with overgrowth; the E half is much disturbed by animals. There is a Man-made underground passage (SL037-077002-) in the NW quadrant. A field boundary curves around the N arc. 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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