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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cashel Lower

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

On a narrow N-S pasture ridge, in the NW corner of a later field. A heavily overgrown circular area (int. diam. 24m) is enclosed by a flat-topped (Wth 1-3m) bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2 at N to 9m at W; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.1 at S to 2.1m at W). A Children’s Burial ground (MA070-056----) lies c. 200m to the E and a second ringfort (MA070-105----) lies c. 130m to the S.        Date of visit: 7-3-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA070-055

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  • Western People; photographer not stated (Stuart Tynan is article author), www.westernpeople.ie
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
  • Breaffy Area community website; individual photographer not stated, breaffyarea.weebly.com
  • Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
  • Eirambler, Wikimedia Commons
  • John D. Reigh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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