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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Aghabrack

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No visible entrance, two earth banks, one waterlogged ditch, and a flat oval top still stand on the Aghabrack rise. It is not a small pile of stones; it is a shaped place, built wide enough to keep out more than rain. The fairies may have done the building, but human hands must have lived there, breathed there, and forgotten the name of the front door.
On a prominent rise in pasture. A raised oval area (46.5m NNW–SSE; 40.5m ENE–WSW) enclosed by two low banks of earth and stone with a shallow, partially waterlogged, intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 3.8-5m; H 0.4-0.7m) is not visible from E–SE–S due to the dumping of farm refuse. The fosse (Wth 5-6.8m; D 0.2-0.6m) is identifiable at SSE and from NW–NNW–N. The outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.8m) only survives at N. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 22 November 2011

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