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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballycormick

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on flat land in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 27m) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; ext. H 0.8m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D 0.3m) visible only from SE through S to SW. No entrance feature visible. Field fence intersects external fosse at SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF046-018

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Photo credits
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Paddy Ryan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Liam Hughes from Milwaukee, WI, USA, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Dylan Moore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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