
What is recorded here
The fairy fort or stone ringfort in Glen (leyny By.) is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies an oval area twenty metres north-south and seventeen metres east-west within a dense copse on a southeast-facing slope. A collapsed moss-covered stone wall two metres thick encloses the space, while a one-metre entrance opens at the southeast. Dense overgrowth covers the cashel, and another cashel lies one hundred and twenty metres to the east.
In a dense copse of trees, on a SE-facing slope. An oval area (int. diam. c. 20m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a collapsed moss-covered stone wall (T 2m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.1m). The entrance (Wth 1m) is at SE. The cashel is densely covered with overgrowth. Another cashel (SL020-186----) lies c. 120m to E.
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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