What is recorded here

Indicated (1838). is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonamahan, County Sligo, Ireland. The 1838 Ordnance Survey map shows an embanked circular area thirty metres across, planted with trees inside a walled orchard on a gentle south-east-facing slope. That orchard is now a sheep paddock where the embankment has levelled, leaving only a slight twenty-metre rise visible in the ground.

In a walled orchard, on a gentle SE-facing slope. This possible rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 30m), planted with trees. It is now levelled though a slight rise (diam. c. 20m) is noticeable in the area. The orchard is now used as a paddock for sheep. 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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