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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mundellihy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mundellihy holds a broken ring on a narrow ridge above the Deel. Its earthen bank has thinned to a low curb, yet the circle still marks a place where people stood apart from the field. The fort may have been a home, a boundary or a promise kept in soil.
In pasture, on N-facing slope overlooking River Deel. Circular area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.8m) with an external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 2.2m). Bank is eroded and slight NE->E. Interior under grass but with some patches of scrub overgrowth; W half of interior higher than E by c. 0.35m. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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