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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Caher

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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On a NW-facing pasture slope (between the 400’ and 500’ contours), overlooking Lough Graney to the W. A circular area (int. diams. 34m E-W; 33.40m N-S; ext. diams. 42.20m E-W; 39.10m N-S) is enclosed by an earthen bank which is best preserved from NE-E (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at top 2.1m; Wth at base c. 7m, including slippage from the bank) and lowest between NW and N (int. H 0.-5-0.10m; ext. H 0.2m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 5.2m) at SE. The interior slopes down from SE to NW, is free of vegetation, and contains exposed rock outcrop in the SW sector. The monument is fenced along its outer perimeter with a gate at NW providing access to allow the interior to be grazed.
On a NW-facing pasture slope (between the 400’ and 500’ contours), overlooking Lough Graney to the W. A circular area (int. diams. 34m E-W; 33.40m N-S; ext. diams. 42.20m E-W; 39.10m N-S) is enclosed by an earthen bank which is best preserved from NE-E (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth at top 2.1m; Wth at base c. 7m, including slippage from the bank) and lowest between NW and N (int. H 0.-5-0.10m; ext. H 0.2m). There…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CL013-002

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  • P L Chadwick, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Yosemite, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Karduelis, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • colm, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • dougf, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Deadstar, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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