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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Coolroe (shelburne By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Located on a fairly steep W-facing slope, with a N-S stream c. 60m to the W. The faint cropmark of a D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW) defined by a single fosse feature but truncated by a NW-SE section of road at NE is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (9) 20-22). A house had been built just outside it at SW by c. 2013 (digitalglobe). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 July, 2013 Amended: 30 March 2021

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