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Indicated (1838).

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Indicated (1838).
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Indicated (1838). is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cashel South, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies pasture on a gentle south-facing slope and presents a slightly raised oval area measuring thirty-eight and a half metres north-south and thirty-three and a half metres east-west. A scarp rising sixty centimetres defines the boundary, while an external flat-bottomed fosse twelve metres wide and approximately forty centimetres deep remains evident along the northeast, southeast, south-southwest and west-southwest sections.
In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope. A slightly raised oval area (38.5m N-S; 33.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m). There is an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 12m; D c. 0.4m) evident NE-SE and SSW-WSW. 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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