What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mount Town is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Mount Town, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies rough pasture on the west side of a ridge and preserves a circular earth and stone bank around an 18 by 20 metre area. Stones still appear intermittently along the inner base of the bank, while a band of rushes marks the probable line of its silted-up outer ditch.

In rough pasture, on top of the W side of a ridge. A circular area (18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by an eroded earth and stone bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.9m) with a revetment of stones evident intermittently along the base of the internal face of the bank. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary S-W. A band of rushes (Wth. c. 2m) NW-ESE probably indicates the line of a silted-up external fosse. 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mount Town is a circular early-medieval defensive or domestic site, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy lore, and they were often avoided due to beliefs in supernatural inhabitants.

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