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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynash (clare)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Magic and memory are doing fine. The system is working as designed.
Atop low rise, in undulating pasture. Formerly embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) now truncated on W and S sides by field boundaries; enclosing earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.3m) survives NW->SE, with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 3m) and counterscarp bank (H 0.2m; Wth 3.2m) NE->ESE. Breaks in inner bank at SE (Wth 2m) and N (Wth 2m). Entire site is overgrown by trees and bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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