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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Corralara

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Corralara is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corralara, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle southeast-facing slope where a four-metre-wide earthen bank forms a circular grass-covered area thirty-two metres east-west and thirty metres north-south. Parts of the bank join a field bank, create internal and external scarps, and sit immediately west of Rath.
On a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 32m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) SW-NW which is incorporated into a field bank NW-N, a scarp down to the interior (H 0.55m) N-NE and an external scarp (H 0.4-0.6m) SE-SW. Rath (RO011-090001-) is immediately to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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