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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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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. 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.

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