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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballygilgan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In level mature coniferous forestry. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a broad bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3; int. H 0.3m). At the external base of the bank is a fosse (Wth 2m). The fosse encloses the site NE-NNW and is visible as a very slight depression around the external base of the bank. A modern WNW-ESE orientated field drain has been cut along the line of the fosse NNW-NE. The original entrance is not recognisable. A hut site (SL008-025002-) is located to SW of centre in the interior.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL008-025

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • DS Pugh, Wikimedia Commons
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Michael Murtagh, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Dieglop, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Willie Duffin, Wikimedia Commons
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