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What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rockbrook is in County Sligo, Ireland. The levelled rath sits in rough pasture on a ridge and measures eighteen metres east to west but only fourteen metres north to south because a field boundary and drain cut the southern arc. A slight scarp rises no more than ninety centimetres around the raised centre while a shallow external fosse two metres wide shows through a growth of rushes. People also call it Taugheny's Fort.

In rough pasture, on top of a ridge. This rath is levelled and the remains consist of a slightly raised circular area (diam. 18m E-W) enclosed by a scarp (max. H 0.9m) except along the S arc where it is truncated by a field boundary and drain giving a dimension of 14m N-S. A shallow external fosse (Wth 2m) is marked by a growth of rushes. Named 'Taugheny's Fort' (OSNB vol. 1, 126). 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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