Hilltop enclosure in Muckelty

In pasture, on top of a steep-sided oval hillock on the SE slope of Muckelty Hill. An oval area (87m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 4m) N-S and by the steep natural slope of the hillock S-N. The entrance (Wth 4m) is at the S. The interior slopes gently down to E. When inspected, the hilltop enclosure had been ploughed for forestry but not planted. Included in a list of hillforts and hilltop enclosures by Condit, Gibbons and Timoney (1991, 62) who also noted that the remains of a possible outer enclosing wall, following the contour on the E side of the hill, is visible in an aerial photograph (CUCAP, APF 68) and that the area had been planted with trees. 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

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.