Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Doonsheheen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
View what I want to do
No photo yet

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

In rough pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 19m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.3m) NE-NW, with remnants of a stone kerb along the base of the internal face and by a scarp (H 1m) NW-NE. The line of an external fosse is evident as boggy ground with a band (Wth 3.3m) of rushes and irises. The bank S-WNW is incorporated into a field boundary with an external recut fosse. The perimeter is overgrown with hawthorn bushes. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.