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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Glasha Beg,glasha More

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort and stone ringfort in Glasha Beg, glasha More, County Clare, Ireland: a circular platform, eleven metres across, defined by a scarp rising from ten centimetres at the north to one metre at the south, with collapsed stone spread one to two metres either side and a level interior. Two other cashels sit thirty-one metres east and fifty-four metres north-east, all locked inside a large multiperiod field system on rough pasture and outcropping limestone pavement. The name Fairy fort may be local story rather than fact, but the shape is not subtle: a made circle, repeated three times, set where livestock, weather and memory still move across the same stone.
In undulating rough pasture and outcropping limestone pavement, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). This circular platform (diam. 11m) is defined by a scarp (H 0.1m at N; max. H 1m at S). A spread of collapsed material (Wth 1-2m) lies on either side of it. The interior is level. Two other cashels (CL008-013002- and CL008-013001-) c. 31m to the E and c. 54m to the NE respectively. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-013006-_01.jpg View from SE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23 August 2022

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