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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Riddlestown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Riddlestown, County Limerick: a roughly circular earthen ringfort, 23.8m by 23.5m, with a scarped edge 0.6m high and 5.5m wide, best preserved from east to west-northwest. It sits in pasture on a break in a northwest-facing slope, level except the northern third, which dips toward north-northwest. A field boundary skirts the base at the northeast, as if the land still acknowledges the shape beneath the grass.
In pasture, on break in NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (23.8m N-S; 23.5m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.6m; Wth 5.5m). Scarp is best preserved E->WNW but becomes very indistinct WNW->N, and is distinct but low N->E (H 0.55m; Wth 4.1m). Entire site is under pasture and level except for N third which slopes down to NNW. Field boundary skirts base of scarp at NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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