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Embanked enclosure in Chapel

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Located on a level landscape, and just S of an E-W road that curves around the perimeter NNW-NNE. This is a slightly raised and grass-covered subcircular area (dims 45m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a degraded earthen bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 0.9-1.2m) with an external stone facing. There is no visible fosse or entrance but there is a hedge on the perimeter S-NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX052-020

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • ArcticEmmet, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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