What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Toneen, County Longford: a 57m-by-54m earthen ring with an 11m entrance gap on an east-north-east slope. People may have lived there, fenced it, or feared it; the ground still keeps its shape.

On a shelf of level ground on an ENE-facing slope. A raised circular area (57m N-S; 54m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4-5.6m; H 0.5-1.2m) with an external fosse (Wth c. 8.5m; D 0.3-0.7m) that has been infilled from WNW-N-SE. At the inner base of the bank at S is a drainage ditch. A wide break (Wth 11m) in the bank at ENE probably marks the sector in which the original entrance was located. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 January 2012

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