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Embanked enclosure in Craggs

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.2m N-S; 40.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5-8.5m; int. H 0.3m at N to 1.2m generally; ext. H 1.7m at E to 3m at W) and outer fosse (Wth of top 5-7m; Wth of base 2.2-2.5m; D 0.5-1m), with an external field bank S-W. The original entrance is not identified. A Man-made underground passage (WA034-022002-) is c. 8m W of the centre. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 September 2011

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA034-022001

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  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • E. H. (E. Hayden), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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