What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Coolmeen (roscommon By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the east end of a low east-west drumlin ridge and presents a circular grass-covered area measuring forty metres north-south and thirty-seven metres east-west. An overgrown earthen bank surrounds the space on three sides, while a shallow outer ditch cuts through the grass on the remaining edge. No entrance breaks the continuous earthen boundary.
At the E end of a low E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.65m at WSW to 1.6m at NNW; ext. H 1.25m at WSW to 2.3m at NNW) SE-W-NE, which is reduced to a grass-covered scarp (H 0.5-0.7m) elsewhere, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 4m; D 0.3-0.6m) SW-NW. There is no visible entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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