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Embanked enclosure in Cloonrane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On a gentle SE-facing slope overlooking Fin Lough, c. 400m to the E. Overgrown circular platform (diam. 33m E-W; 31m N-S; H 0.8-1.3m) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4.5-7m; Wth of base 2.5-3.4m; D 0.7-0.9m). There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO029-049001-) is c. 200m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO029-050

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Photo credits
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Tulsk GAA club website; individual photographer not stated, www.tulskgaa.ie
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Hyacinth45 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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