What is recorded here

The fairy fort or stone ringfort in Kilcummin is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a gentle southeast-facing slope near a River Moy tributary and contains a twenty-two metre circular area enclosed by a two metre drystone wall. Local information says the cashel was formerly used as a burial ground, while a bullaun stone lies twenty-five metres to the east northeast.

In pasture, with numerous rock outcrops, on a gentle SE-facing slope and c. 60m W of a tributary of the River Moy. A circular area (22m E-W) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.2m; H 2m) and raised slightly in the E half to compensate for the hillslope. The enclosing wall is evident only as foundations in places while its height has been increased in other places, especially along the W arc, by the addition of field-clearance stones. A rim (Wth 3m) of sod-covered collapsed stones lies immediately outside the cashel wall. The interior is level and largely covered with hawthorn bushes. According to local information, this cashel was formerly used as a burial ground (SL031-003002-). A bullaun stone (SL031-003001-) lies c. 25m to ENE. 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). Attached images: SL031-003----_01 viewed from N Updated upload: 6 July 2015

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