What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrowntober is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowntober, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies level pasture four hundred metres northwest of Tobercurry and measures thirty-three and a half by twenty-two metres across a one-metre-high D-shaped bank. The structure sits on the north-northeast side of a field boundary and contains an entrance to a man-made underground passage in its western half.

In level pasture, c. 400m NW of Tobercurry. A raised D-shaped area (33.5m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW; H 1m) on the NNE side of a field boundary, as indicated on the 1941-2 OS 6-inch map. There is an entrance to a Man-made underground passage (SL038-031002-) in the W half of the interior. 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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