Embanked enclosure in Clongeen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Marked as a rectangular bivallate enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch mpa, it is located towards the bottom of a gentle E-facing slope with the headwaters of a small N-S stream c. 170m to the E. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 27m N-S; c. 27m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at N: Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m) SW-NE and a scarp H 0.5-0.9m) elsewhere with an external flat bottomed but dry fosse (Wth of top 4-8m; Wth of base 2m at S to 4m at N; ext. D 0.9m at E to 1.8m at N) and an outer overgrown bank (Wth 2-4m; ext. H 1-2m), that has an outer drain NW-SE. The interior has been quarried with the old spoil mound obscuring the inner bank and fosse at W. An entrance (Wth 3.3m) through the outer bank at W is probably modern and uses the spoil as a causeway. It is listed as a moated site (Barry 1977. 218, WX 38), but is probably a rath.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX040-040

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