What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rooghan is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rooghan, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies the summit of a north-south ridge in rough grazing. A thirty-metre circular area sits inside a six-metre earthen bank. A four-metre external fosse surrounds the site, though a forest plantation now touches its south-east section.

In rough grazing, on the summit of a N-S ridge. A raised circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 6m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.5m) which is truncated by a field boundary SSE-SSW. A possible entrance (Wth 2m) is at SSW. An external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.6m) is evident all round but is encroached upon by a forest plantation SSE-SSW. An E-W field boundary crosses the N half of the interior. The perimeter of the rath is partially overgrown with gorse. 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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