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Embanked enclosure in Cornamart

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On the crest at the S end of a low NNW-SSE ridge. Oval grass-covered but poached area (dims 42m ENE-WSW; 34m NNW-SSE) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2.1m) which is incorporated into a field bank S-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-064----) is c. 190m to the NNW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO042-065

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  • John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Maker not stated on source page, fi.pinterest.com
  • RosCamán, Roscommon official hurling development committee; individual aerial photographer not stated, roscaman.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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