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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gortaderry

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gortaderry is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Gortaderry, County Sligo, Ireland. The site occupies a slight rise in low lying wet pasture and contains a circular area measuring nineteen metres north-south and eighteen metres east-west. A four-point-four-metre-wide earthen bank reaches zero-point-three-metre internal height, encloses the whole place, and grows dense gorse. No ditch appears, and the original entrance remains unrecognisable.
Situated on a slight rise in low lying, gently undulating wet pasture. Slightly raised circular area (dims. 19m N-S; 18m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 4.4m; int. H 0.3m). No fosse visible. The bank encloses the site on all sides is densely overgrown with gorse. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

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