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Embanked enclosure in Kildalloge

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Towards the top of a steep N-facing slope at the W end of a WNW-ESE drumlin ridge. Subcircular grass and rush-covered area (dims 44.4m E-W; 38.6m N-S) which slopes down to the N (H of slope 2m) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 2-3.4m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.6m ) E-SSW. There are internal facing-stones at W, but there is no visible fosse. The modernised entrance (Wth 3m) is at ENE. Church (RO023-195001-) is c. 200m to the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-169

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  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, irishheritagenews.ie
  • Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
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