What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Clooncose, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies pasture at the south end of a bog-island summit, where extensive quarrying and erosion reduced the structure to a circular area twenty-nine metres across. A flat-topped earthen bank lines the east and south arcs, while a shallow dry fosse marks the west edge. A man-made underground passage survives in the north-west quadrant.

In pasture, at the S end of a summit of a bog-island. The rath is extensively quarried into and heavily eroded. The remains consist of a circular area (diam. c. 29m) raised c. 0.5-1m above the external ground level. The edge of the interior is defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H c. 0.7m; max. ext. H 2m) along the E and S arcs. A flat-bottomed dry fosse (D 0.75m) is evident along the W arc. There is a Man-made underground passage (SL032-156002-) in the NW quadrant. 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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