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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockadrehid

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockadrehid is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Knockadrehid, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a rocky shelf on the lower east-facing slope of a drumlin. A grass-covered area measuring twenty-two and a half by twenty metres contains an earthen bank with bushes and a scarp, though no entrance or fosse remains visible. A mound barrow stands one hundred metres to the west.
On a rocky shelf on the lower E-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims. 22.5m NE-SW; 20m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank with bushes (Wth 5m; H 0.3-0.8m) SW-W and by a scarp (H 0.6-1m) NE-SW, but the perimeter cannot be identified W-NE. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Mound barrow (RO003-083----) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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