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Embanked enclosure in Annaghgap

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Located towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope overlooking the N-S Wicklow Gap, with a N-S stream c. 150m to the E. It is marked as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1841 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP T 39/40). This is a circular grass and bracken-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by drystone wall (Wth 1.5-2.5m; H 0.5-1 m). There are entrance gaps (Wth 1.5m) at S and E.
Located towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope overlooking the N-S Wicklow Gap, with a N-S stream c. 150m to the E. It is marked as a circular embanked enclosure on the 1841 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map and is visible on aerial photographs (GSIAP T 39/40). This is a circular grass and bracken-covered area (diam. 32m) defined by drystone wall (Wth 1.5-2.5m; H 0.5-1 m). There are entrance gaps (Wth 1.5m) at S…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX002-013

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  • Sarah777 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Jonathan Billinger, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • surrealpenguin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ian Brooker and David Kleinig, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0 au
  • Goreymurphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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