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Embanked enclosure in Rathnure Upper

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Situated towards the W edge of the plateau of a NW-SE spur in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains with the NW-SE Boro River c. 500m to the SW. It was described in the 1940s as a circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by an earthen bank, with a fosse surviving NE-SE where there was an outer field bank. There were modem entrances at N and S (SMR file). It has been removed since the 1960s and is now visible as a slightly raised, grass-covered area (dims. 52m N-S; 46m E-W; H 0.2-0.3m) area, with traces of a fosse WSW-ENE. It is visible as the cropmark of a bivallate enclosure on aerial photographs (MM (1) 18-21). Rath (WX024-005----) is c. 130m to the NW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX024-006

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Photo credits
  • Rathnure St Anne’s GAA Club; individual photographer not named, rathnuregaa.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, ch.pinterest.com
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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