What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Carrownleam, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies undulating pasture on a low rise and appeared on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure about twenty metres across with a tree inside. The possible cashel is no longer visible at ground level, though another cashel marked on that same map lies one hundred and ninety metres north-northwest.
In undulating pasture, on a low rise. Indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) with a tree in the interior. The possible cashel is not visible at ground level. A cashel (SL025-042----), similarly indicated on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, lies c. 190m 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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