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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyshonock

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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In pasture, on E-facing slope. Circular area (43m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 0.5m) N->S; low earth and stone bank S->SSW; earth and stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) SSW->N, incorporated into field fence system. Interior slightly raised; slopes down gently to E.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-005

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; CaitNi, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; john salter, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Colin Park, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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