What is recorded here
This site has not been visited. According to Westropp (1922a 125) it is a narrow headland at the end of a chasm fenced off by a slightly curving wall six to eight feet thick and three courses high on the outside. The interior measures 78 feet by 38 feet and is featureless. Much of the site as well as a nearby ringfort…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA104-002
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Photo credits
- Colin Park, www.geograph.ie
- Towel401, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Maker not stated on source page, ca.pinterest.com
- United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain
- Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
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