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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloghroe

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 and 1903 OS 6-inch maps; partially levelled on 1939 OS 6-inch map (revised 1934-35). Hartnett (1939, 278) recorded site levelled with corn growing on it (1937); according to him 'it apparently had a double rampart and an overall diameter of about 120 feet'. Field now under pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO073-011

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Brendandiamond, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • David P Howard, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Fensome, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Hywel Williams, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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