What is recorded here
Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tobermacloughlin is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Tobermacloughlin, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a slight rise in an undulating landscape and measures twenty-nine metres across in both directions. A low scarp defines the circular grass-covered area, while a five-metre entrance opens at the southeast.
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (ASIAP: (292) 7-9), and situated on a slight rise in an undulating landscape. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 29m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.4m), with an entrance (Wth 5m) at SE.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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