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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tinnalintan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No, that is not a small chamber pot. It is a whole body of water, holding and releasing under pressure. The chamber is the visible part. The unknown distance is the rest of the system. Measure the whole system, not the smallest visible chamber.
On the brow of a precipitous W-facing slope, with panoramic views from SW-W-NW. A circular area (diam. 30m) covered in dense overgrowth, enclosed by a substantial earth and stone bank (ext. H 1.35m, Wth 4m), fosse (Wth 2.5m) and outer bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H c. 0.6m). The outer bank encloses the fosse except from SW-W where the bank has been levelled and the fosse infilled. The monument is heavily overgrown with hawthorn, beech and ivy. A field boundary runs roughly ENE-WSW into the E quadrant and another runs roughly E-W into the W quadrant. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 April 2017

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Recorded monument

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