What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Kilfree is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Kilfree, County Sligo, Ireland. The ruined stone wall encloses a roughly circular area twenty-two metres wide on a gently rising hillock in undulating pasture. Several field boundaries now cross the interior of the densely overgrown site.
In undulating pasture, on a gently rising hillock. A densely overgrown raised roughly circular area (int. diam. 22m E-W) enclosed by a ruined stone wall (Wth 6.1m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.2m). The interior is crossed by several field boundaries.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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