What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Corbally West is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corbally West, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle north-facing slope of a low hill as a D-shaped grass-covered area measuring 29.5 metres northwest-southeast and about 27 metres northeast-southwest. A three-metre-wide earthen bank remains at the east entrance, while a shallower scarp and outer fosse mark the rest of the perimeter. A northwest-southeast field bank cuts across the southwest edge.
On a gentle N-facing slope of a low hill. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 29.5m NW-SE; c. 27m NE-SW) defined by a fragment of an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1m) at E which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4-1m) elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of base 3m; D 0.4m) WNW-NNE. The entrance (Wth 3m) is at E. A NW-SE field bank truncates the perimeter at SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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