What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowreilly, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a south-facing pasture slope as a raised oval area measuring 32 metres north-south and 28 metres east-west. An earthen bank 5 metres wide surrounds the centre, reaching 1.85 metres externally and 0.7 metres internally. A dry flat-bottomed fosse 6.7 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep cuts outside the bank, though a field boundary truncates it at the south-southeast.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A raised oval area (32m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.85m) with a dry flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 6.7m; D 0.2m). A field boundary truncates the fosse at SSE. The rath is densely covered with overgrowth. 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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