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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballycardeen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (51.6m N-S; 50.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 2.1m); with shallow external fosse, except to SE and NW. Pathway running E-W crosses N half of interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO136-037

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Steve Edge, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Draceane, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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