Lisnagael, fairy fort or earthen ringfort in County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In rough pasture, on top of a ridge. An oval area (40m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. 0.6m; ext. H 1.3m) NNW-W with two large gaps in the E arc and a 16m wide gap in the S arc. The bank bulges c. 2m into the interior along the N arc. A band of rushes (Wth 3m) along the SW arc may indicate the line of an external silted-up fosse. The interior slopes slightly down to S. A field boundary skirts the W half of the rath.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL034-236

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