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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Kilcash

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Kilcash is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Kilcash, County Roscommon, Ireland. The circular stone structure sits on a slope of Moydow Hill with visible inner and outer facing stones. A separate house site appears just outside the main ring, while Rath lies one hundred and twenty metres to the northeast.
Visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on aerial photograph (GSIAP: M 153-4), and situated towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope of Moydow Hill. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 32.7m NW-SE; ext. diam. 36.4m NW-SE) defined by a grass-covered stone spread with inner and outer facing-stones visible (original Wth 1.7-1.9m; H up to 0.85m) WNW-E-S. The perimeter does not survive elsewhere and there is no identifiable original entrance, but there is a house site (RO042-019002-) (ext. dims 10.3m N-S; 10.3m) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone spread, with an entrance at the SE corner just outside the cashel at NW. Rath (RO042-020----) is c. 120m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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