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Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Coolbawn Demesne

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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What is recorded here

Marked faintly as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map, and situated on a N-facing slope. This is a subcircular area (dims. 45m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth 6 8m; D 0.2-0.4m). A possible entrance is visible as a slight fold in the outer lip (L 7m) at NNE.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX024-021

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Photo credits
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Darrin Antrobus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Humphrey Bolton, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Sarah777, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Lisamoriarty1, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Richard Webb, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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