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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrowkeel (tirerrill By., Templevanny Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In undulating pasture, straddling a break of slope and overlooked to the NW by the steep slopes of Bricklieve Mountains. A slightly raised oval area (38.6m NW-SE; 33.6m NE-SW) defined ENE-NW by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.85m) and NW-NE by a scarp (H 1.8m), built up to compensate for the natural slope. The bank is generally degraded NE-SW, retaining only a low internal lip. At SW, where it backs onto rising ground, it is barely rises above the external ground level but has a pronounced internal scarp. The interior is bisected by a NE-SW field boundary wall and is generally level though it is slightly lower in the N half, the change in level is marked by an 11m stretch of a NE-facing scarp (H 1m). There is a rectangular enclosure (SL040-033001-) c. 100m to NW. 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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