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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ardconra

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Towards the bottom of the SW-facing slope of a rise. Circular grass-covered but poached area (int. diam. 39m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 2.85m at S to 3.7m at N; int. H 0.05m generally to 0.55m at N; ext. H 0.2m at S to 0.5m at N) SE-NE with intermittently visible facing-stones (original Wth 1.9m). There is no visible entrance, but the perimeter has been quarried at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO006-170

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Unknown Weaver, English (active c. 1080), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Suse, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC BY 2.5
  • John M, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rob Hurson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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