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Embanked enclosure in Rinn

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On the crest of the summit of a NE-SW ridge, towards its SW end. Circular area planted with coniferous trees (diam. c. 25m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) and outer fosse (Wth. of base 4m; D 0.2m) NE-E-SW, which cannot be traced elsewhere. A rectangular house site (RO010-021002-) (int. dims c. 5m ESE-WNW; c. 4m NNE-SSW) was noted E of the centre in 1980 (SMR file), but it is no longer visible at ground level.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO010-021001

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Photo credits
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Joseph Mischyshyn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gavigan 01 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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