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Embanked enclosure in Cornagher

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on SE shoulder of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered oval area (max. dims c. 34m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by a steep-sided, overgrown, earthen bank (Wth c. 3-5m; H c. 0.6m) with a fosse suggested by a waterlogged band of lush vegetation. There are modern entrances (Wth 4m) at NE and NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE029-015

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Fifiheavey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Real Group Photos / realboyle (Flickr account); individual photographer not stated, www.flickr.com
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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