What is recorded here
Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Tobermacloughlin is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Tobermacloughlin, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies a circular grass-covered area on a rise where inner and outer facing stones remain intermittently visible beneath an overgrown stone spread. A drystone wall now overlaps the eastern and southern perimeter, while no original entrance remains identifiable.
Situated on a rise in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 23.4m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by a grass-covered and overgrown stone spread (Wth 1.6-4m; H 0.2-0.4m) with inner and outer facing-stones intermittently visible (original Wth 1.9-2.1m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and the perimeter is ovelain by a drystone wall E-S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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