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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gorteen (dangan Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible entrance gap suggests the ring hides under grass or memory rather than inviting entry. It sits beside another fort, as if two circles were drawn on the same hill at different times. The road and field boundary cut through its western edge, reducing an old enclosure to a shallow ridge in pasture.
On a generally level area on a gentle E-facing slope, in improved pasture. Westropp (1914-16, 67), describes this monument as an ‘earthen fort…with a shallow fosse…’. A circular area (22m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by the remains of a levelled bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.45m; Wth at top 4.2m; overall Wth 11.1m) WNW-SSE and levelled SSE-WSW. The enclosing elements are truncated across the W sector by a tertiary road (long-axis N-S) and across the SW sector by a stone and tree-lined field boundary (long-axis NW-SE). A concrete tank with trackway and field entrance has been built at S-SW. There is no obvious entrance gap. The interior is sunken below the external ground level across the western half. Ringfort (CL035-104----) is located c. 115m to E. The following images have been uploaded: CL035-101----_01.jpg From NE. Cross sectional view of levelled bank at SE. CL035-101----_02.jpg From W. Cross sectional view of internal scarp at N where bank is level with present ground level on exterior. CL035-101----_03.jpg From NE. General view of monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 April 2018

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