What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyara (knox) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyara (knox), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a gentle west-facing pasture slope and preserves a circular earthen bank about twenty-five metres across. Two gaps in the north-east and south arcs align with a disused field boundary that curves through the eastern interior, while a shallow external fosse borders the south-west to north-east and north-east to south-east sections.

In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope. A circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m). Two gaps in the NE and S arcs correspond with a disused field boundary which curves across the E half of the interior from N to S. There is a flat-bottomed external fosse (Wth 4m: D 0.1m) SW-N and NE-SE. The interior slopes gently down to E. 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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