What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowreilly, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a raised D-shaped area on the lower south-facing slope of a ridge, containing a hut site in its southeast quadrant. The structure appears on the 1838 and 1914 Ordnance Survey maps as a circular embankment roughly twenty metres across.
In pasture, on the lower S-facing slope of a ridge. A raised D-shaped area (dims. 21.5m NW-SE), defined by a scarp (max. H 0.9m), with a straight NW side (L 22.3m NE-SW). There is a hut site (SL032-110002-) in the SE quadrant of the interior. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area and on the 1914 OS 6-inch map as a hachured circular area (diam. c. 20m).
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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