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Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Castlegowan

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Situated on level ground, on slight rise in gently undulating low-lying wet pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 1.35m) of random limestone rubble. No fosse visible at ground level. A portion of the original external wall facing, made up of un-coursed large limestone flags, survives NNE-E. Modern drystone field walls have been built on top of and along the centre line of the bank E-NNW. The external face of the cashel has been reconstructed to form the rear wall of a small cattle yard, with a small shed and the ruined remains of a house that abuts the external side of the cashel at SE. A modern NW-SE orientated drystone wall links to the modern wall on top of the cashel bank at NW. A break (Wth 1.7m).in the bank at SW marks the position of the original entrance. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Situated on level ground, on slight rise in gently undulating low-lying wet pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 4.4m; int. H 1.35m) of random limestone rubble. No fosse visible at ground level. A portion of the original external wall facing, made up of un-coursed large limestone flags, survives NNE-E. Modern drystone field walls have been built on top of and along the…

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL005-016

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Gordon Hatton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Suzanne Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hellowiki789, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • IrishFireside, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • NTF30, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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