What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumcormick is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumcormick, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a circular pasture area twenty-eight metres north-south and thirty metres east-west on a northeast-facing ridge slope. An earthen bank and scarp define the perimeter, while a shallow fosse marks the western and northern edges. Another rath sits eighty metres northwest on top of the ridge.

In pasture, just off the top of a ridge on a NE-facing slope. A circular area (28m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.7m) W-NW and by a scarp (H 0.6m) NW-S. The bank is incorporated into a linear NW-SE field boundary S-W. A shallow fosse (Wth 2m) is evident W-N. The interior slopes down to NE. There is another rath (SL034-162----) on top of the ridge c. 80m to NW. 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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