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Cloncose Fort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Raised circular area (int. diam. 38.4m) enclosed by two substantial earthen banks with outer fosses. The external fosse has been modified and incorporated into the field drainage system. Corresponding breaks in banks with accompanying causeway at NE represents original entrance. Possible collapsed Man-made underground passage running W from the entrance to the centre of the internal area (CV014-012002-).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV014-012001

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  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • NTF30, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Adam Simpson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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