What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Drumee is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Drumee, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies low-lying poorly drained rough grazing and appears as an irregular raised area about thirty metres east-west and one point six metres high. Dense overgrowth covers the earthworks, while field boundaries cut across the interior and quarries remove parts of the east and south arcs. A short curving bank remains along the southeast edge where the original structure is still visible.

In low-lying poorly drained rough grazing. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 20m) and on 1914 OS 6-inch map as an arc of hachures NNW-SE on the E side of a field boundary and bisected E-W by a second field boundary. It is now evident as an irregular raised area (c. 30m E-W; H 1.6m) densely covered in overgrowth with a N-S field boundary crossing the interior off-centre to W and an E-W field boundary off-centre to N. The rath is quarried into at E and S with an isolated short section of a slightly curving bank or field boundary (Wth 3m; H 0.9m) remaining along the SE arc. 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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