Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Falleens, County Sligo

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In pasture, straddling a natural elevation and overlooking Lough Gara to E. A roughly circular area (28m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 2m; ext. H 2.2m) of roughly coursed limestone blocks and slabs. The wall is well preserved SW-N, is reduced internally N-E to a low heap of rubble and externally consists of a facing (H 1.8m) on a scarp cut into the natural slope, some of which has collapsed downslope and topped with a field boundary wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.5-1m). The wall remains largely intact ESE-SSE but expands in width to 2.4m. From S-SW, where the external ground level is significantly higher than that of the interior, the external wall face is low and almost flush with the external ground level. A trackway (Wth 1.7m) flanked by walls, curves around the cashel SSE-SSW, partially overlying the cashel wall. The only break (Wth c. 2.5m) in the wall is at E and is engulfed in overgrowth. The interior slopes down to NE and E and is largely covered in blackthorn and brambles.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL044-074

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