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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tawlaght (boyle By., Killukin Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tawlaght (boyle By., Killukin Ed) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tawlaght (boyle By., Killukin Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the top of a small drumlin as a subcircular grass-covered area measuring thirty-seven metres east-west and thirty-one metres north-south. A scarp rises along the northeast and south, while an earthen bank and shallow fosse define the southwest and west, with the bank incorporated into a field bank toward the north. Another rath sits immediately to the northwest.
On top of a small drumlin. Subcircular grass-covered area (diam. 37m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.6m at NE to 1.4m at S) NE-S and an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 1.3m) and fosse (Wth of base 2.7m; D 0.1m) SW-W, the bank being incorporated into a field bank W-N. There is no identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO011-014001-) is immediately to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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