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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Shancarrick

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated at the bottom of a steep S-facing slope of the Skeanada river valley with the stream markedly below the monument c. 25m tot he S. This is an overgrown circular area (diam. 27.5m NW-SE) defined by a stone spread (at NW: Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.3m; at SE: Wth 6.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) which is built on a partly raised platform at SE. The Man-made underground passage site (LE015-058002-) is in the interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE015-058001

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Dromahair Arts and Recreation Centre (publisher); individual photographer not stated, discoverdromahairpark.ie
  • John M, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Rod Allday, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Darcy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willie Duffin, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Raymond Bell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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