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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Aughine

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mortals may have gone through the causeway gap or dropped outside it, yet the fort still belongs to the fairies. It circles the Longford slope like a marble ring, waiting for music before it shows itself.
On a gentle SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 35.8m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.9m; H 0.45m max.) with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 7.5m; D 0.9m) and what may be the outline of a levelled outer bank (Wth c. 3m). From SSW-W-NW the circuit and morphology of the bank and fosse have been altered where they have been incorporated into modern linear field boundaries. A break (Wth 4.1m) in the bank at SE with an accompanying causeway probably marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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