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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyscanlan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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In pasture, located on a low rise in undulating terrain. Raised circular area (23.6m E–W; 25.8m N–S) enclosed by a gravelly earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 2m, at NW). The bank is best preserved on the N arc, where protruding stones may be remnants of a rough internal kerb. The bank is lower and degraded at NE–SE, with a break (Wth 1.7m) at E; the original entrance may have been on this side. At S-NW the bank is reduced to a low, broadly-slumped scarp. The interior has a slight slope down to S. There is a NW-SE farm road immediately to N. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 July 2019

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA038-027

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Pamela Norrington, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Neville Goodman, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Liz McCabe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • jeremy durrance, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Ray Martin, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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