What is recorded here
In rough grazing, straddling the top of a low ridge. A raised roughly square area (18.4m N-S; 17.8m E-W), with rounded corners, enclosed by an inner earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.05m) except along the E half of the N side where a broad slumped scarp exists. There is a gap (Wth 3.6m) in the bank at the N end of the W side and another (Wth 1.4m) at the N end of the E side. A short section of a possible outer bank (L 4m; Wth c. 3m) is evident at SE, 3m outside the inner bank. The interior slopes down to N. A sunken linear trackway (Wth at base 2.3m), flanked along its E side by an earthen bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 0.4m), lies immediately to E of the enclosure where its construction has modified the external bank face. A field system (SL047-084003-) lies c. 20m N and downslope of the rectangular enclosure. A rath (SL047-084001-) lies c. 30m to W and a burnt mound (SL047-084004-) lies c. 80m to S.
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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