Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Carrowgar, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture. Roughly circular area (33.8m E-W; 29.3m NW-SE) defined N->ESE and SW->WNW by scarped edge (H 1.35m; Wth 4.5m) with external fosse (D 0.35m) and counterscarp bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1m); otherwise enclosing element levelled c. 1980, according to local information. Counterscarp bank is flat-topped (Wth c. 3m) on E side. Level interior under pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI036-045

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Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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