Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bleachgreen, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In pasture, on a N-facing slope. An oval grass-covered platform (28m N-S; 25m E-W; H 1.5m) with the remains of a low bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m) along the SE arc. An oval area (10m x 5m) has been quarried out of the N edge. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked or raised circular area (diam. c. 18m) within a bleaching green. There is a circular enclosure (SL020-202----) c. 150m to SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL020-201

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