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Embanked enclosure in Ballynaslaney

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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This was described in 1987 (SMR file) as a circular overgrown area (diam. 43m E W; 40m N S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3-6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m). There was an entrance (Wth 3m) at WNW, but there was no visible fosse. It had been removed by 2000 (OSAP). In July 2018 a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works) recorded an image of its cropmark as a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 5m) visible in parched pasture, but an entrance feature is not visible. See the attached aerial view taken from S courtesy of Skypix Aerial Works Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 2 January, 2019
This was described in 1987 (SMR file) as a circular overgrown area (diam. 43m E W; 40m N S) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3-6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m). There was an entrance (Wth 3m) at WNW, but there was no visible fosse. It had been removed by 2000 (OSAP). In July 2018 a drone-mounted camera operated by Páid Bates (Skypix Aerial Works) recorded an image of its cropmark as a circular area (diam. c.…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX032-020

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Thommcg1980, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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