What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Culleens, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slightly raised circular area thirty-four metres across near the northwest edge of a pasture ridge. An earthen bank forty-seven centimetres wide and between eighty and one hundred forty centimetres high encloses the space. The western half of this bank has become part of a later field boundary.
Situated close to the NW edge of a ridge in pasture. Slighlty raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4.7m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m). On the W half of the rath the bank has incorporated into a later field boundary
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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