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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Lisnamucklagh (athlone South By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Lisnamucklagh (athlone South By.) is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Lisnamucklagh (athlone South By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a rise in an undulating landscape and presents a circular grass-covered area thirty-six point six metres across. A two-metre-wide stone wall footing with facing-stones survives beneath a drystone-built wall on the north-northwest to south-southeast side, while a slight scarp marks the south to north-northwest perimeter. A north-east to south-west field wall truncates the southeast edge, and a north-west to south-east wall now crosses the interior where a previous north-east perimeter wall stood before two thousand.
Visible as a circular feature on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M 596-7), and situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 36.6m N-S) defined by the footing of a stone wall with facing-stones (Wth of wall 2m) surviving beneath a drystone-built wall NNW-SE and evident as a slight scarp S-NNW. The perimeter is truncated by a NE-SW field wall at SE. The field wall on the perimeter at NE has been replaced by a NW-SE wall across the interior since 2000 (OSAP: 2000, 2005). Cashel (RO047-043----) is c. 190m to the SSE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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