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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Ballinloughane

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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In bush-covered area on limestone outcrop, on gentle SE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 1.32m; ext. H 1.38m; Wth base 2.4m) incorporated into identical field boundary on E side. Heavily masked by vegetation cover with interior only inaccessible at verges.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI019-167

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Wikimedia Commons contributor · Public domain
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • The Banner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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