What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killoran North is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a low east-facing pasture slope and preserves a circular earthen bank with an external ditch. The bank is partly absorbed into a field boundary, while shallow quarrying has disturbed its south arc and the ground immediately outside.

In pasture, on top of a low E-facing slope. A raised circular area (36.5m N-S; 36.7m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank and an external fosse. The bank (Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 3m) is incorporated into a field boundary system S-NNW. There is a gap (Wth 3.8m) at E adjacent to which the bank is low and degraded for c. 6m. The fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3m) is evident SW-NW, elsewhere the line of the fosse is marked by a band of rushes and soft ground (Wth 4m) apart from at E where there are no visible remains of it. The interior slopes slightly down from the centre to E. Part of the external slope of the bank along the S arc and the area immediately outside the bank have been disturbed by shallow quarrying. 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

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.