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Embanked enclosure in Trean

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Towards the top of the SE-facing slope of a NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.7m NE-SW; 33.6m NW-SE) defined by a scrub-covered earthen bank (at ENE: Wth 5.3m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.25m) incorporated into a field bank SE-WNW, while the perimeter is damaged by cuts and added spoil elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO042-040----) is c. 110m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO042-041

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Gatepainter, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Gillaween, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Sawyer777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • infomatique, flickr
  • Photographer not named by Glenamaddy GAA club blog, glenamaddygaaclub.blogspot.com
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