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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bracklin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a rise of ground surrounded by undulating grassland. Ringfort (WM013-105---) 310m to E. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m NE-SW) enclosed by two poorly preserved earth and stone banks, with an intervening fosse and external fosse. The inner bank has been levelled and mostly reduced to a scarp. The inner fosse is wider from NW-ENE, and there is an intervening space (Wth. 9m) between the inner fosse and outer bank on the N side of the monument. See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 July 2018

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