What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rue is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Rue, County Sligo, Ireland. The structure occupies a low rise and contains a circular area forty metres across. A flat-topped earthen bank surrounds the space while a flat-bottomed fosse cuts through the ground on the south-west and south-south-east sides. A three-metre entrance at the east-north-east crosses the fosse with a causeway, and dense overgrowth now covers the rath.

On a low rise. A raised circular area (int. diam. 40m) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m) with an external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.7m) SW-SSE. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at ENE with a causeway across the fosse. The rath is densely covered with overgrowth. Another rath (SL037-099----) lies c. 10m 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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