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Embanked enclosure

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Embanked enclosure
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What is recorded here

On a gentle E-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 50.5m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) which is best preserved at NNW (Wth 8.5m; int. H 1.8m at NNW; ext. H 1.8m) and an outer fosse (Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.3-0.85m), which is circumscribed by a field bank and townland boundary with Killinaddan SSW-NNW. There is an entrance (Wth 4m) at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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