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Embanked enclosure in Cloonard

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On the gentle E-facing slope at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge. Described in 1995 as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m E-W; 43.7m N-S) defined by an overgrown and poached earthen bank (Wth 3.1-3.8m; int. H 0.9-1.1m; ext. H 0.3m at S to 1.9m at N) ESE-S and SSW-W-NNE, which was incorporated into a field bank WSW-N but reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) NNE-S. There was no visible fosse or entrance. Later, sections of the bank were removed S-SW (L 18m) and N-NE (L 12).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO020-020

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  • Jscaguiat, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • David Purchase, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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