What is recorded here

Parknahough Fort is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cams, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough pasture on a ridge beside a road, forming a twenty-eight-metre circular area enclosed by a four-metre earthen bank. A three-metre western entrance opens the slightly raised space, while faint traces of an external fosse remain visible. Another rath sits forty metres to the northwest.

In rough pasture, on top of a ridge and adjacent to a road. A slightly raised circular area (diam. 28m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) with faint traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m). There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at W. Another rath (SL034-097001-) is c. 40m to NW. 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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