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Cave Fort ME009-011001- in Glenboy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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ME009-011001-
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Situated at the SW end of a NE-SW ridge with spurs from this point off to the W and SE, it is described as ‘Cave Fort’ on the 1836 and 1908 OS 6-inch maps. This is a raised, D-shaped and grass-covered area (dims 36m N-S; 33m E-W) defined b y a scarp (at N: Wth 4.5m; H 2.6m; at S: Wth 5.3m; H 2m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, but it is bisected by an E-W field bank that is faced with stone at N (H 1m) but flush with the interior at S, and the perimeter is truncated by the bank a N-S farm lane at E. The collapsed Man-made underground passage (ME009-010002-) is in the S interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME009-011001

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Photo credits
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • James Fergusson, after E. Conwell, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Bill Griffiths, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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