What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ardcarn (boyle By.) is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ardcarn (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular grass-covered area measures twenty metres across and sits on a rock shelf above low land. A stone spread one and a half to five and a half metres wide defines the perimeter, while a man-made underground passage lies inside the south-west boundary. A field wall cuts the south-east edge, and another rath stands forty metres to the north-west.

On a shelf of rock-outcrop in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 20m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 1.5-5.5m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 0.2-0.95m). There is no visible entrance, but Man-made underground passage (RO006-161002-) is inside the perimeter at SW. A NE-SW field wall truncates the site at SE, and rath (RO006-160---) is c. 40m to the NW. See the attached aerial image taken from the SE with this monument in the foreground. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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