What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Mount Temple is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Mount Temple, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise in gently undulating pasture and measures twenty metres across with a stone bank three point three metres wide and point eight five metres high inside. No ditch or original entrance remains visible, yet aerial photographs reveal the circular shape that never appeared on standard maps.
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. However it is visible from aerial photographs (ACP V204/100-1). Slightly raised roughly circular area (diam. 20m) defined by a stone bank (Wth 3.3m; int. H 0.85m). No fosse visible. Original entrance not recognisable.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 21 April 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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