What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockbreenagher is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockbreenagher, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough pasture below a ridge summit on a south-facing slope. A roughly circular area measuring forty-nine metres across sits inside a four-metre-wide earthen bank and shallow external fosse. Stone facing reinforces the internal northern, eastern and southern arcs, while rushes overrun the gently sloping interior.

In rough pasture, below the summit of a ridge on a S-facing slope. A roughly circular area (int. diam. 49m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.5m) and a shallow external fosse (Wth 4m). The bank is faced with stone internally along the N, E and S arcs. A short section of bank and fosse is disturbed along the E arc. The interior slopes gently down to S, is overgrown with rushes and bisected by a low E-W field boundary wall. A field boundary skirts the fosse E-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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