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Embanked enclosure in Loughdeheen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated on a knoll on an E-facing slope with the S-N Ballymoat stream c. 200m to the E. An overgrown circular area (diam. 26.5m E-W) is defined by an earthen bank (at E: Wth 3.4m; H 1.3-1.5m), which is incorporated into a field bank SW-NW. The entrance (Wth 1.8m) is at SE, but there is no visible fosse.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA017-021

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • RTG, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, fi.pinterest.com
  • Brendan Tobin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Jamie O’Keeffe / Copper Post, Fenor GAA section, copper-post.beehiiv.com
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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