What is recorded here

The fairy fort or stone ringfort in Lugnamackan is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a roughly circular area twenty-one metres across near the top of a gentle south-facing slope. The adjoining cashels form walls on the northwest and northeast, while a collapsed stone scarp and a low grass-covered spread complete the boundary. Wood-Martin mentioned it in 1882 as one of three raths in a trefoil arrangement.

In pasture, near the top of a gentle S-facing slope and adjoining the S edges of conjoined cashels (SL020-197007; SL020-197008-). A roughly circular area (int. diam. 21m) defined by the enclosing walls of the adjoining cashels NW-NE, by a stone-faced scarp topped by a stone field boundary NE-S and by a low grass-covered stone spread (Wth 5.1m; H 0.5m) S-NW. The stone facing on the scarp has now collapsed. The interior, which slopes down to E, is stepped due to three low natural terraces. Mentioned by Wood-Martin (1882, 21) as one of three raths in a 'trefoil arrangement'. 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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