What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killinraghty Little is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killinraghty Little, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a gentle south-facing slope as a circular grass-covered area measuring thirty point two metres north-northeast to south-southwest and twenty-seven point eight metres west-northwest to east-southeast. An earthen bank four point five to five metres wide surrounds the site, reducing to a scarp point seven to point eight metres high elsewhere, while a flat-bottomed fosse six to eleven metres wide at the top and two to five metres wide at the base cuts through the south-west, north and east sections. A separate outer bank two point five metres wide appears on the south-west, and a one point two metre entrance opens at the east.
On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.2m NNE-SSW; 27.8m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1m) NW-E-SE which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m) elsewhere, and a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 6m S-W to 11m N-NE; Wth of base 2m at SW to 5m N-NE) SW-N-E. There is an outer bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m) S-W, and an entrance (Wth 1.2m) at E. The church (RO034-059001-) is c. 140m to the NW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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