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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonakilly More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On a S-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 51.3m N-S; 47m E-W) sloping down to the S (H 1m) defined by an earthen bank and hedge (Wth 2.5m at E to 4.5m at W; int. H 0.3m E-S to 0.7m W-N; ext. H 0.9m at E to 1.4m at S). There is no visible fosse, and there are entrances at SSE (Wth 3.5m) and WNW (Wth 3m). It is overlain by a NNW-SSE field bank and hedge towards the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO022-139

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Photo credits
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Gaelic Athletic Association (publisher); individual photographer not named, www.gaa.ie
  • Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  • John M, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Christopher Hilton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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