What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Quarryfield is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Quarryfield, County Sligo, Ireland. The roughly oval site sits in pasture on a drumlin slope, with an earthen bank forming its eastern and southern edges while a scarp defines the rest. A dry fosse marks the southern exterior, and a field boundary now runs across the western scarp. Another rath lies fifty metres to the south.

In pasture, on the NW-facing slope of a drumlin. A roughly oval area (34m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1m) E-S and by a scarp (H 0.9m) elsewhere. A dry external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.2m) is evident SSE-S. The N portion of the interior is raised c. 0.9m to compensate for the hillslope. A field boundary is built on top of the scarp SSW-WNW. Another rath (SL038-088----) lies c. 50m to S. 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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