What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Fortland is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slight east-northeast-facing pasture slope as a raised oval area measuring twenty-six metres northwest-southeast and nineteen metres northeast-southwest. A four-point-two-metre-wide earth bank encloses the space, though no ditch appears at ground level and the original entrance remains unrecognisable. Mature ash trees grow at regular intervals along the bank while two small oval quarries cut into the western and southeastern interior bases.

Situated on slight ENE-facing slope in pasture. Slightly raised oval area (26m NW-SE; 19m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.40m). No fosse is visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. Mature ash trees grow at regular intervals on top of the bank on all sides. Two small quarries have been dug in the interior. The first consists of an oval hollow (8m N-S; 3.8m E-W; D 0.45m) against the inner base of the bank at W. The second consists of an oval hollow (5m E-W; 2m N-W; D 0.4m) against the inner base of the bank at SE. Compiled by: Mark Keegan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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