What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Corgarve (frenchpark By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corgarve (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a knoll on an east-facing slope and forms a circular grass-covered area thirty-one metres across. A four-point-eight-metre-wide earthen bank rises along the southwest and northwest, while a lower scarp defines the remaining edge. No entrance or ditch is visible today.
On a knoll on an E-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.1) SW-NW and by a scarp (H 0.8m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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