What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Whitehill (tirerrill By., Lakeview Ed) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Whitehill (tirerrill By., Lakeview Ed), County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies level rocky wet pasture as a slightly raised roughly circular area 16m east-west and 20m north-south. An earthen bank 2.2m wide, 0.5m high inside and 0.6m high outside, remains along the western arc while a scarp defines the rest. A 2m wide external ditch is best preserved along that same western arc.

In level rocky wet pasture. A slightly raised roughly circular area (16m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by the remains of an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m) along the W arc and by a scarp elsewhere. The external fosse (Wth 2m) is best preserved along the W 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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