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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Caherelly East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Caherelly East holds a sub-circular ringfort barely twenty metres across, its scarped edge reduced to a low ridge beneath modern pasture. The eastern arc vanished under a drain and field boundary, while a faint external fosse still traces the southern and western curves. Cattle graze the interior as if the ancient division never existed, turning a fortified home into ordinary ground. What was once a defended threshold has become a shallow breath in the field, visible only when light rakes the grass at a angle.
In level pasture. Sub-circular area (21m NNW-SSE; 17m ENE-WSW) defined by the remains of a partially levelled scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 4.2m). Eastern arc truncated by drain and field boundary NE-ESE. Traces of external fosse (basal Wth 4.5m; total Wth 9.5m; D 0.2m) SE-WNW. Interior level and monument is incorporated into rest of field as pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 12 November 2013

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