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Embanked enclosure in Carrowntlieve

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On a gentle SW-facing slope overlooking Lough Croan, the N shore of which is c. 100m distant. Circular grass-covered platform (diam. 35.7m N-S; 35.4m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 3.5-5.8m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1.5-2.2m) SW-W-NE, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO044-067----) is c. 100m to the NE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO044-066

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  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • dougf, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Brian Lawless / Sportsfile, as credited in the Ulster GAA caption, ulster.gaa.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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