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Embanked enclosure in Clegna

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Towards the top of the SW-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. 20m E-W; 18m N-S) defined by an overgrown scarp (H 0.2-1m) SE-NW. It is truncated at N by an E-W field bank and at E by a N-S field bank. There is no visible fosse or but there is a modern entrance at SE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO007-002

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  • St Michael’s GAA Club blog; photographer not named, stmichaelsgaa.blogspot.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
  • Alan Murray-Rust, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.thejournal.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ie
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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