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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Annies

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Located on top of a low hill. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 42.5m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base c. 3m; int. H c. 0.5m; ext. H 1.4m at N to 2.2m at S) and hedge W-NNE, which is reduced to a scarp and hedge elsewhere, and an outer fosse (Wth of top c. 2.2m; ext. D 0.6-1.2m) SW-N-NE. There is an entrance (Wth 1.5m) at NNE but the original entrance is likely to be that (Wth of base 2.4m) at ESE. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 4 May 2018

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MO016-004

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  • Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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