What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tawnagh (tirerrill By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tawnagh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland. The structure occupies a pasture on an east-facing ridge slope. A four-metre-wide earthen bank rises 1.5 metres internally along the western arc, while a 1.2-metre scarp defines the remaining boundary around the 24-metre circular area. Faint traces of a three-metre-wide external ditch are still evident.

In pasture, on an E-facing slope of a ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 24m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 1.5m; ext. H 1m) along the W arc and by a scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. Faint traces of an external fosse (Wth 3m) are evident. 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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