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Embanked enclosure in Bryan More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Towards the bottom of the steep SE-facing slope of a NE-SW drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 32m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a gapped and overgrown earthen bank (at SW: Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m; at NW: Wth 6m; int. H 1.9m; ext. H 0.7m) SW-W-NE, and an outer fosse re-cut as a drain (Wth of base 2m; D 0.4m) W-N. There is no evidence of the perimeter NE-E-SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO017-012

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  • PST Sport project photograph; individual photographer not stated, pstsport.com
  • Brian Shaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dan Clohessy / INPHO, www.roscommonherald.ie
  • Roscommon Herald; individual photographer of this image not stated, www.roscommonherald.ie
  • Brendan Moran / Sportsfile, www.irishexaminer.com
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Pauline Leverett, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.irishamerica.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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