What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Spring Gardens is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Spring Gardens, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a level landscape as a subcircular overgrown area measuring 38 metres north-south and 34 metres east-west. An eroded earthen bank, 6 to 8 metres wide and 1 to 1.9 metres high internally, defines the eastern and southern edges before joining a field bank or reducing to a 0.6-metre scarp elsewhere. No visible fosse or original entrance remains.
On a level landscape. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 38m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by an overgrown and eroded earthen bank (Wth 6-8m; int. H 1-1.9m; ext. H 1.4-1.6m) E-S which is incorporated into a field bank S-NW and reduced to a scarp (H 0.6m) NW-E. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
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