What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rockfinlough is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a subcircular area twenty-six point eight metres north-south and twenty-six point five metres east-west at a break of slope on the south side of a ridge. An earthen bank encloses the southwest and southeast, while a steep scarp covered in hawthorn bushes forms the remaining boundary. Gaps appear at the northwest and southeast, and the grass-covered interior slopes gently southward toward Drumdivnagh Lough one hundred metres away.

In a recently planted coniferous forest, at a break of slope on the S side of a ridge. A subcircular area (26.8m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank SW-SE and by a steep scarp elsewhere. The bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.55m) is incorporated into a field boundary NE-SE and possibly modified along the W arc where it is narrower (Wth 2.6m) than elsewhere. The scarp is densely overgrown with hawthorn bushes. There are gaps in the bank at NW (Wth 2m) and at SE (Wth c. 2m). The interior is grass-covered and slopes gently down to S. Drumdivnagh Lough is c. 100m to SE. 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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