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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cloonskeeveen, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a drumlin slope and remains visible through an earthen bank, scarp, lush vegetation marking a former fosse, and a narrow entrance. Two other raths stand about seventy metres away to the west-northwest and south.
At the crest of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 31.5m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5.6m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.3-1.4m) SW-NW and a scarp (H 1m at S to 1.6m at E) elsewhere, with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 3.1-3.5m; D 0.25m) visible as lush vegetation N-E. There is an entrance (Wth 1.3m) at SE. Rath (RO011-024001-) is c. 70m to the WNW, and rath (RO011-027----) is c. 70m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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