What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Bredagh (athlone South By., Turrock Ed) is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Bredagh (athlone South By., Turrock Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. The oval grass-covered area measures 54 metres northeast-southwest and 38 metres northwest-southeast, marked by a slight scarp on an undulating landscape. Local knowledge holds that the fort contained much stone until removal in the early 1980s, leaving a northwest-southeast field boundary across the site. Cashel lies approximately 190 metres west-northwest.
Visible as a faint feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 596-7) and situated on an undulating landscape. Oval grass-covered area (dims 54m NE-SW; 38m NW-SE) defined by a slight scarp. It is known locally to have been a fort with a lot of stone which was removed in the early 1980s and it is now overlain by a NW-SE field boundary. Cashel (RO047-042----) is c. 190m to the WNW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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