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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Bryan Beg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Towards the top of the NE-facing spine of a low NE-SW drumlin ridge. Circular scrub-covered area with mature deciduous trees (diam. 28m NE-SW; 26m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5-0.65m; ext. H 0.8-1.8m) E-SSW, and a scarp (H 1-1.4m) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO017-015

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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