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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Granagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy forts in Ireland are usually earthen rings, not magical palaces. In Granagh the ring measures about twenty-seven metres across, holds a level grassy interior, and keeps a narrow gap in its south-east bank where people or animals may have entered. The earth still stands at the base of a slope, shaping a small complete world inside the pasture.
In pasture, at base of SE-facing slope. Circular area (26.8m N-S; 25.2m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.9m) S->E, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.65m; Wth 2.7m) E->S. Gap in bank (Wth 2.9m) to SSE. Level interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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