Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballyvoyle

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What is recorded here

Situated on the S-facingl slope of a broad NW-SE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 35m NNE-SSW) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.5m) with slight traces of an inner fosse which may have been excavated to supply material for the bank on the uphill side of the rath. The perimeter is truncated slightly at SE by a NE-SW field bank. There is no identifiable entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WA032-004

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Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Robert French, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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Susan Pike, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Alexander Redfern, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Audrius Janecka, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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