What is recorded here

The fairy fort or stone ringfort in Mahanagh is in County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a south-facing pasture slope as a roughly circular drystone enclosure about twenty-five metres across. Sections at the north-west and south-east have partly collapsed, while dense overgrowth now fills the level interior. The structure rises two metres toward the south to compensate for the hillslope.

In pasture, on a S-facing slope. A densely overgrown roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.2m; int. H c. 1m; ext. H c. 1m). Sections of the wall at NW and SE are partly collapsed. The interior is level, engulfed by overgrowth and inaccessible; it is raised c. 2m SE-S to compensate for the hillslope. Because of the overgrowth, the existence of a possible inner enclosure visible in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 227/19-20) and occupying most of the interior, could not be determined. 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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