What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Corgarve (frenchpark By.), County Roscommon, Ireland. It appears as a circular feature roughly forty metres across on the 1837 Ordnance Survey six-inch map and occupies a gentle southeast-facing slope. A grass-covered area thirty metres wide sits within an earthen bank that forms a scarp on the southeast and merges into the surrounding land elsewhere, with no visible entrance or ditch.
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 30m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) W-NW, which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.3-1.1m) SE-SW but merges into the slope elsewhere. There is no visible fosse or entrance.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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