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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrickmore

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrickmore is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrickmore, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the western edge of a shelf on a north-facing slope, where a grass-covered earth and stone bank arcs across a circular area roughly twenty-eight metres wide. Another feature called Cashel lies thirty metres to the south.
At the W edge of a shelf on a N-facing slope. An arc (C c. 10m) of a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 4.3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.8-1.1m) survives ENE-SE of a circular area (diam. c. 28m) defined elsewhere by a slight scarp. Cashel (RO006-086003-) is c. 30m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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