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Embanked enclosure in Cloonerra

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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At the W end of a low E-W ridge. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-4.4m; int. H 0.6-0.9m; ext. H 1.1-1.7m) and hedge NE-S-NW, which has been incorporated into a field bank NE-S, and a fosse (Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 1.6-1.8m; D 0.3-0.6m) S-NW. The monument has been truncated by an E-W field bank at N and there is no identifiable original entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO029-116

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  • Maker not stated on source page, heritageireland.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.thecollector.com
  • Tulsk GAA club website; individual photographer not stated, www.tulskgaa.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
  • Hyacinth45 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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