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Hachured (1838).

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumcormick is in County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies rough pasture at the base of a northeast-facing ridge slope, with an abandoned farmhouse positioned to the southeast. A raised circular area about seventeen metres across forms the main structure, bounded partly by earth scars and partly by a stone-faced edge. A spring well appears close by to the southeast.
In rough pasture, at the base of the NE-facing slope of a ridge; there is an abandoned farmhouse to SE. A raised roughly circular area (diam. c. 17m) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m) SE-NW, by a linear stone-faced scarp (long axis NE-SW) along the NNW arc, by a curved scarp N-NE and elsewhere by a NW-SE field boundary. There is a spring well close by to SE. 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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