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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Coolcraff

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Coolcraff, County Longford: a 42m earthen ring on a SW-facing pasture slope, its wide low bank and faint fosse worn by grass and time. The entrance has disappeared, so the fort keeps its own secret while cattle walk past the place where people once drew a circle around their lives.
On a SW-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 42m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 7.75-9.5m; H 0.5-1.05m) with a poorly defined external fosse (Wth 4.2-8m; D 0.2-0.3m), which is identifiable only from NE-E-SE. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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