What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Falleens is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Falleens, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slightly raised D-shaped area in poorly drained rough pasture on a gentle SE-facing slope close to the shore of Lough Gara. A disused railway line lies immediately to the east and cut through the eastern edge during construction, leaving a vertical scarp where the original bank no longer stands. The remaining sides are marked by a curving earth and stone bank, a slumped bank, and shallow scars in the ground.

In poorly drained rough pasture, on a gentle SE-facing slope, close to the shore of Lough Gara; a disused railway line lies immediately to E. A slightly raised D-shaped area (dims. 29.7m N-S; min. 25m E-W) defined on the straight E side by a vertical scarp (H 1.8m) resulting from truncation during the construction of the railway line, S-SW by a curving earth and stone bank (Wth 4.1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.05m), SW-NW mainly by a scarp (H 0.6m) with a low internal rim in places, NW-N by a slumped bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.45m) and N-NE by a scarp (H 0.75m). A slight depression (Wth c. 3m) outside the bank SSW-SW and another NNW-N, marked by damp ground and rushes, may indicate the line of an external fosse. The interior slopes down gently from the centre to NE, has slight traces of cultivation ridges and is crossed by a NNE-SSW field boundary wall. 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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