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Carnagillagh Fort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on a rise in a level, low-lying landscape, it is described as ‘Carnagillagh Fort’ on the OS 6-inch maps. This is a raised, subcircular grass and scrub-covered area (dims c. 40m ENE-WSW; c. 32m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (H 1.8m). There is no visible fosse or entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME003-025

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Rainer Lippert, Wikimedia Commons · CC0; Nuala Furley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dasmuy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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