What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballydawley, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a rise in pasture and measures twenty-nine metres across. The northern edge retains an earth and stone bank one point eight metres wide, while the remaining boundary forms a scarp.

In pasture, on a rise. A raised circular area (diam. 29m) defined by the remains of an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) along the N arc and by a scarp elsewhere. 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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