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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bartramstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Situated on a shelf in a low-lying position near the headwaters of the N-S Bartramstown river, with the stream c. 45m to the E. The church (ME033-022----) is in the centre of a raised subcircular area (diam. 33m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.5-1m) ENE-S-SSW that is incorporated into a field bank and hedge elsewhere. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 3m) at E, and there are indications of an outer enclosure in a concentric scarp N-E, c. 60m distant from the church. The enclosure is probably a rath.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record ME033-022001

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  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • SeoR, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • C O'Flanagan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Alvesgaspar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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