What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockbeg East is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockbeg East, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a ridge in undulating pasture and forms a raised circular area twenty-four metres across. A scarp one point two metres high defines most of the edge, though traces of a one-metre-wide earthen bank remain in places. A ramp on the eastern arc may mark the entrance.
On a ridge, in undulating pasture. A raised circular area (int. diam. 24m) mostly defined by a scarp (H 1.2m) but with traces of an earthen bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.3m) in places. A ramp on the E arc may mark the position of the entrance.
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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