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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballybeg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In improved pasture, on a NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 4.5m; H 0.8m) at foot of which is earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (Wth 4.55m; D 1.0m). present entrance (Wth 6m) to interior at SSW-SW. Fosse re-cut as field drain SSW-NE; field boundaries abut enclosure at NE and SSE. Bank covered by trees and scrub. Interior grass covered and slopes gently down to W.
In improved pasture, on a NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by scarped edge (Wth 4.5m; H 0.8m) at foot of which is earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.2m) with external fosse (Wth 4.55m; D 1.0m). present entrance (Wth 6m) to interior at SSW-SW. Fosse re-cut as field drain SSW-NE; field boundaries abut enclosure at NE and SSE. Bank covered by trees and scrub. Interior…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI024-004

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • EamonnPKeane, Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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