What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rinbaun is in County Sligo, Ireland. It is a raised circular area twenty-eight metres across with a flat-topped earthen bank four metres wide. The bank stands one point two metres high outside and zero point five metres high inside. A field boundary tops and covers the bank from south-southwest to north-northwest and along the southeast arc.

In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope down to bogland. A raised circular area (28m N-S) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m). The bank is topped and covered by a field boundary SSW-NNW and along the SE arc. The interior slopes gently down to S. 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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