What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carraun (leyny By., Tobercurry Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies wet, boggy ground on a ridge and contains a man-made underground passage in the northwest quadrant. The oval site measures thirty-four point five metres north-south and thirty metres east-west within a discontinuous earthen bank.

In wet, boggy ground, on top of a ridge. An oval area (34.5m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by a discontinuous flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.5m). A flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.6m), which is evident all round, is recut as a drainage ditch along the NW arc. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) in the E arc, with the N edge marked by a line of stones, and a corresponding causeway across the fosse. The interior is wet and boggy. There is a Man-made underground passage (SL032-134002-) in the NW quadrant. 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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