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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballincar

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On natural hillock in undulating pasture, SE of Ballincar Cottage. Oval-shaped area (26m N-S; 32.5m E-W) is enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.36m; ext. H 2.2m; Wth 1.5m) from NE-NW and by a scarp (H 1.7m) to the N. There is only a faint indication of an external fosse (Wth 4m) at the SE. The entrance (Wth 4.3m) occurs at the SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL014-014

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Darrin Antrobus, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Val, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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