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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonfad More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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What is recorded here

Marked as a circular wooded enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1914 ed. Situated on the S-facing slope of a broad E-W drumlin. Described as an oval area (dims 33m E-W; 23m N-S) defined by an earthen bank and outer fosse (Gannon 1972). It is no longer visible at ground level in pasture.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO011-117

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Photo credits
  • PST Sport project photograph; individual photographer not stated, pstsport.com
  • Brendan Moran / Sportsfile, www.irishexaminer.com
  • Picture: en.wikipedia.org
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Dan Clohessy / INPHO, www.roscommonherald.ie
  • Hyacinth45 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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