What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Tiratick is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Tiratick, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a low rocky elevation above a stream, enclosing a level grassy oval with a sod-covered stone bank that merges into a ruined field boundary wall on the west. A small semicircular cut appears on the north-eastern face, while a possible underground passage lintel lies at the south-eastern slope base. Another cashel stands on a knoll 450m to the west-southwest.

In undulating pasture, on the top of a low rocky elevation and c. 15m N of a stream. A slightly raised oval area (24.3m E-W; 17.7m N-S) defined NE-W by a sod-covered stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.45m), slightly expanded (Wth 2.8m) SW-W where incorporated into a now ruined field boundary wall. Elsewhere it is enclosed by a flattened curved wall, engulfed in brambles. The external height of the stone bank is enhanced at W where it merges with a rock outcrop (H 2m). The interior is level and grassy. A small semicircular area (diam 2m) is cut out of the external face of the stone bank at NNE adjacent to the wall. The lintel of a possible Man-made underground passage (SL021-078002-) is evident at the base of the slope to SE. Another cashel (SL021-073----) is visible on top of a knoll c. 450m to WSW. 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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