What is recorded here

The fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rockfinlough is in County Sligo, Ireland. It stands in undulating pasture on a low ridge and appeared on the 1838 Ordnance Survey map as a roughly circular embanked area. The site remains visible as a raised irregular measure of twenty-six and a half by twenty-seven and three metres, shaped partly by field boundaries and an eroded scarp.

In undulating pasture, on a low ridge. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular embanked area (diam. c. 25m). Now evident as a raised irregular area (26.5m N-S; 27.3m E-W) defined by a NE-SW field boundary on NW arc, by a curving field boundary N-ESE and elsewhere by an irregularly curving eroded scarp (H 1.3m). There is a slightly raised central area in the interior from which there is a gentle slope down to W and S and a more marked slope down to E. 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.