Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rosmore, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In rough pasture, at the base of the S side of a high ridge, c. 40m N of the Douglas River. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 20m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) N-SSW and by a slight scarp elsewhere. The bank is broken in places exposing earth and some stone. A NNE-SSW field boundary crosses the W half of the interior separating the levelled W half from the upstanding E half. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area while on the 1914 OS 6-inch map the W half is truncated by a field boundary.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL027-129

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Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
David Perez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
GTD Aquitaine, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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