What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Treanmore (corran By.) is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Treanmore (corran By.), County Sligo, Ireland. It encloses an oval area 34m by 30m wide with a ruinous sod-covered stone wall 1.5m thick, 0.6m high inside and 1.75m high outside. A possible entrance 2.1m wide appears in the southern arc, while several gaps remain visible in the wall. The eastern half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope but still slopes down to the east.

In rocky pasture, on an E-facing slope and in the N end of a field system (SL040-063001-). An oval area (int. diam. 34m x 30m) enclosed by a ruinous sod-covered stone wall (T 1.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.75m). There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.1m) in the S arc; several gaps in the wall were also noted. The E half of the interior is raised to compensate for the hillslope but it still retains a slope down to E. There is a possible Man-made underground passage (SL040-064002-) in the E half and a hut site (SL040-064003-) in the SW quadrant. Several disused field boundaries project from the perimeter. 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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