
What is recorded here
The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Stonehall OR Carrownageeragh is in County Sligo, Ireland. The monument occupies meadow pasture on a south-facing slope beside a field boundary. It presents as a raised roughly circular area twenty-five metres across and one point five metres high. The 1838 Ordnance Survey map showed a wider embanked circular area about thirty-five metres across at the same place.
In meadow pasture, on a S-facing slope. A raised roughly circular area (diam. 25m; H 1.5m) adjacent to a field boundary. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 35m).
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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