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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Macnadille,toormore

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Macnadille,toormore is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Macnadille,toormore, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a low rise on the northwest-facing slope of a broad northeast-southwest ridge. The oval grass-covered area measures forty metres east-west and twenty-eight and a half metres north-south. A grass-covered stone spread and a half-metre scarp define its perimeter, while a northwest-southeast drystone wall and townland boundary with Toormore overlap the interior towards the east.
On a low rise on the NW-facing slope of a broad NE-SW ridge. Oval grass-covered area (dims 40m E-W; 28.5m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.4m at E to 5.5m at S; int. H 0.35m at E to 0.8m at W; ext. H 0.4m at E to 0.9m at S) NE-S-WNW and a scarp (H 0.5m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance, but a NW-SE drystone wall and townland boundary with Toormore overlies the interior towards the perimeter at E and a NE-SW wall overlies the perimeter at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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