What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrownleam, County Sligo, Ireland. The circular raised area sits on the southwest ridge end and measures nineteen point seven metres north-south. A broad low rise defines the northern arc while a taller scarp borders the rest, leaving the eastern side lowest for a possible entrance. Cultivation ridges now cross the interior and ridge top from north to south.

In undulating pasture, on top of the SW end of a ridge. A circular raised area (19.7m N-S) defined along the N arc by a broad low rise (Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m) and by a scarp (H 1.1m) elsewhere. The entrance may have been at E where the scarp is lowest. The interior and top of the ridge is crossed by cultivation ridges on N-S axis. A hut site (SL025-160----) is c. 80m to NNW. 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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