What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghoge Upper is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloghoge Upper, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough pasture on a rise at the top of an east-facing slope. A roughly circular raised area measures twenty-eight metres north-south and twenty-six metres east-west. An earthen bank encloses the space, reaching one point three metres high externally.

In rough pasture, on a rise at the top of an E-facing slope. A raised roughly circular area (28m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.3m). The bank along the N arc is unusually wide (Wth 10.5m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.7m). The remains of stone facing is evident on the inner face of the bank at S and on the outer face of the bank at E. The interior slopes down to E. A NW-SE field boundary clips the bank SSE-W. 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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