What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Inch Island is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Inch Island, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a narrow ridge in pasture on the east side of Lough Gara. A one-and-a-half-metre scarp forms the south arc while a three-metre-wide earthen bank completes the circle. Lazy-beds and a field boundary cross the level interior near the east edge.

In pasture, on top of a narrow ridge on Inch Island, in the E side of Lough Gara. A circular area (int. diam. 38m E-W; 36m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 1.4m) along the S arc and by an earthen bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) elsewhere. The interior is generally level; the E edge is crossed by a N-S field boundary and lazy-beds are visible on a NNW-SSE axis. An irregular pile of earth and stone was noted in the interior, 3m to the W of the field boundary. A rectangular enclosure (SL047-005002-) lies 4m to E. 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

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort on Inch Island, likely dating to the early medieval period, is situated on a narrow ridge overlooking Lough Gara. Local folklore associates such sites with supernatural beings, and they were often considered sacred or inhabited by fairies in Irish tradition.

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