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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Castlebrock

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

A short distance off the highest point of a NW-SE ridge in pasture. Depicted as an irregular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the OS Fair Plan; the S half was tree-lined. A raised circular area (diam. 36.9m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone with an external fosse, both of which have been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. The original entrance is not recognisable. The interior is occupied by farm buildings.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF015-003

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Granard Motte.png : Smcq Derivative work: Hogweard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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