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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Bunduff

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Bunduff is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Bunduff, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a level summit on a broad east-west ridge above gently undulating pasture. A slightly raised circular area twenty-two metres across sits inside a three-metre-wide stone wall reaching one point four metres internally. Un-mortared limestone rubble forms the structure, though dense growth hides the northwest and western sections.
On a level summit of slight broad E-W orientated ridge in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by a stone wall (Wth 3m; int. H 1.4m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. From NW-W the walls are densely overgrown and inaccessible. Where accessible, the wall is made up of un-mortared, un-coursed limestone rubble. The wall is faced internally and externally by random rubble limestone boulders with a core of smaller rubble. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

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