What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowwilkin, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture on a terrace above a southern stream, where a twenty-nine-metre scarp rises one-point-two-metres beside a field boundary. The 1838 Ordnance Survey map drew a forty-five-by-thirty-metre embanked oval with a limekiln at the south-east, suggesting the remaining arc served as a ramp to that kiln.

In pasture, on a terrace overlooking a stream to S. An arc of a scarp (C 29m NE-SW; H 1.2m) extends E-SSE from the SW side of a NW-SE field boundary. This possible rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a large embanked oval area (c. 45m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) with a limekiln on the bank at SE. The remaining arc may have been used as a ramp up to the limekiln. 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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