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Embanked enclosure in Tullen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a hachured feature on the 1914 ed. Situated on a W-facing slope of Mullaghcreigha Hill. It is not visible at ground level in reclaimed pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO023-075

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  • Maker not stated on source page, www.thejournal.ie
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.wikidata.org
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.dreamstime.com
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • David Maher / Sportsfile, as printed in the photograph caption; image published by the GAA, www.gaa.ie
  • Dan Clohessy / INPHO, www.roscommonherald.ie
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