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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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On a slight NNE-facing slope above the flood-plain of the W-E Hind River. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 35.4m N-S; 27.6m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.9-4.5m; int. H 0.85-1.05m; ext. H 0.95-1m) with some bushes which is truncated by a N-S field bank and townland boundary with Ballymurray at W. There is no visible fosse, but the entrance (Wth 1.9m) is at SE. There is a quarry in the interior and a large quarry outside the perimeter ENE-SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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